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Title In which direction is music heading? : cultural and cognitive studies in Turkey / edited by Firat Kutluk, Uğur Türkmen
Published Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 152 pages) : illustrations
Summary This book offers a range of trajectories of academic thought and musical practice in Turkey. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach, with chapters exploring the question posed by its title from the perspectives of ethnomusicology, historical musicology, neurology, psychology, social science, gender studies, acoustics, and linguistics.Some studies are experimental and scientific in nature, ranging from a friends focus on tonality, using EEG to investigate differences in the cognitive responses of musicians and non-musicians listening to tonal and atonal chords, to an examination of brain activa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Musicology -- Turkey
Theory of music & musicology.
Cultural studies.
Cognition & cognitive psychology.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
Musicology
Music
Music -- Physiological aspects
Music -- Psychological aspects
Music -- Social aspects
Turkey
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Kutluk, Firat, editor
Türkmen, Uğur, editor.
ISBN 9781443883221
1443883220