"Why should Americans study or not study Turkish music?
I just came back from Ankara, where I had been invited to present a paper for the Middle Eastern Technical University Folklife Group’s 45th anniversary conference. My paper was entitled “Karadeniz Muziği ve
Karadeniz Yöresel Muziklerinin Karşılaştırmalı Teknik Analizi,” or “A technical analytic comparison of ‘Karadeniz music’ and Black Sea local-traditional musics.” The paper provoked a lot of comments - mostly negative, partly since I was incorrectly introduced as a scholar of Black Sea local traditional musics (which I am not), and largely since my research is ethnographic and anthropological, an academic lens which is not well understood here, particularly in its application to musical subjects."
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