Gezi Park and Taksim Square as Musical Landscapes of Exclusion and Inclusion / Alex G. Papadopoulos. Music, Urban Contestation, and the Politics of Place in Istanbul / Alex G. Papadopoulos -- Rembetika as Embodiment of Istanbul's Margins: Musical Landscapes in and of Transition / Alex G. Papadopoulos -- "Poorness is Ghettoness": Urban Renewal and Hip-hop Acculturation in Sulukule, Istanbul / Kevin Yıldırım -- The Âşıks: Poet-minstrels of Empire, Enduring Voice of the Margins / Thomas Korovinis, with commentary by Alex G. Papadopoulos -- Rethinking the Institutionalization of Alevism: Itinerant Zakirs in the Cemevis of Istanbul / Ulaş Özdemir -- Afterword: Gezi Park and Taksim Square as Musical Landscapes of Exclusion and Inclusion / Alex G. Papadopoulos.
Summary:
Everyday articulations of music, place, urban politics, and inclusion/exclusion are powerfully present in Istanbul. This volume analyzes landscapes of music, community, and exclusion across a century and a half.0An interdisciplinary group of scholars and artists presents four case studies: the rembetika, the music of the Asiks, the Zakir/Alevi tradition, and hip-hop, in Beyoglu, Üsküdar, the gentrifying Sulukule neighborhood, and across the metropolis.
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