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Title: Remembering the 'Timeless City' : Istanbul, music and memory among the Turkish migrants in Sydney
Related: Journal of intercultural studies, Vol. 30, No. 1, (2009), p.73-87
DOI: 10.1080/07256860802579410
Publisher: United Kingdom : Routledge
Date: 2009
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 200200 Cultural Studies 190400 Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Author/Creator: Şenay, Banu
Description: Music can be a brilliant vehicle for creating ‘memories’ about the place it evokes, even if its performers or listeners have never lived there. This paper describes a musical performance with Istanbul as its theme by the Australian Turkish Music Ensemble in Sydney, a group made up of first- and second-generation Turkish migrants. I argue that the sounds, modes, images and narratives moulded together in this musical event not only generate performers’ ties to Istanbul but they also demonstrate how remembering Istanbul in the present is connected to broader and contested historical knowledge about the city, especially that produced by the Turkish nation-state.
Description: 15 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 200200 Cultural Studies
Subject Keyword: 190400 Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Subject Keyword: Istanbul
Subject Keyword: Kemalism
Subject Keyword: Memory
Subject Keyword: Music Revolution
Subject Keyword: Turkish Australians
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Centre for Research on Social Inclusion

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