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Title Balkan popular culture and the Ottoman ecumene : music, image, and regional political discourse / edited by Donna A. Buchanan
Published Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 441 p.)
Series Europea ; no. 6
Europea ; no. 6.
Contents "Oh, those Turks!" : music and interculturality in the Balkans and beyond / Donna A. Buchanan -- Post-1989 culture industries and their nationalist icons. Bosnian and Serbian popular music in the 1990s : divergent paths, conflicting meanings, and shared sentiments / Ljerka Vidić Rasmussen ; Muzica oriental : identity and popular culture in postcommunist Romania / Margaret H. Beissinger ; Bulgarian chalga on video : oriental stereotypes, mafia exoticism, and politics / Vesa Kurkela ; Regional voices in a national soundscape : Balkan music and dance in Greece / Kevin Dawe -- Beyond nation : regionalisms in a cosmopolitan frame. Ottoman echoes, post-Byzantine frescoes, and musical instruments in the Balkans / Gabriela Ilnitchi ; Bulgarian ethnopop along the old Via Militaris : Ottomanism, orientalism, or Balkan cosmopolitanism? / Donna A. Buchanan ; Ottoman successor musics and Albanian identities in the 1990s / Jane C. Sugarman ; Shedding light on the Balkans : Sezen Aksu's Anatolian pop / Martin Stokes ; Trafficking in the exotic with "Gypsy" music : Balkan Roma, cosmopolitanism, and "world music" festivals / Carol Silverman
Summary Since the early twentieth century, "balkanization" has signified the often militant fracturing of territories, states, or groups along ethnic, religious, and linguistic divides. Yet the remarkable similarities found among contemporary Balkan popular musicreveal the region as the site of a thriving creative dialogue and interchange. The eclectic interweaving of stylistic features evidenced by Albanian commercial folk music, Anatolian pop, Bosnian sevdah-rock, Bulgarian pop-folk, Greek ethniki mousike, Romanian muzica orientala, Serbian turbo folk, and Turkish arabesk, to name a few, points to a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-416), discography (p. 417-421), filmography (p. 423-424), and index
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Subject Popular music -- Social aspects -- Balkan Peninsula
Popular music -- Political aspects -- Balkan Peninsula
Popular music -- Balkan Peninsula -- Turkish influences
Popular culture -- Balkan Peninsula
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- International.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Pop Vocal.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- New Age.
Popular culture
Popular music -- Political aspects
Popular music -- Social aspects
Popular music -- Turkish influences
Volkskultur -- Balkan.
Volksmusik -- Balkan.
Politik.
Populäre Musik.
Volkskultur.
Gesellschaft.
Balkan Peninsula
Südosteuropa.
Türkei.
Form Electronic book
Author Buchanan, Donna Anne
LC no. 2021698213
ISBN 9780810866775
0810866773
1282521020
9781282521025
9786612521027
6612521023