Haunted Soundscapes

Transcultural Perspectives on Music, Sound and Power in Turkey
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-56343-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Transcultural Musical Practices

Türkiye receives a new, revised, and closer listen in this collected volume as a place where power and mass sentiment are manifested through music and sound. As a milieu for multiple layers of transculturality — geographical, ethnic, historical, national, ideological, and artistic — the sound of its politics has long foretold coming struggles globally and reflected a remarkable resiliency through upheaval, oppression, and change. Despite a rich tradition of scholarship on Turkish music and politics, no volume has yet examined the country’s recent history as informed through contemporary sound studies.

Haunted Soundscapes: Transcultural Perspectives on Music, Sound and Power in Türkiye fills this gap. Drawing on hauntology, critical soundscape theory, and concepts of transculturality, it examines the haunted soundscapes of Türkiye —sonic spaces where unexamined past traumas permeate the present. Written almost exclusively by scholars living in Türkiye or its diaspora, and grounded in intensive fieldwork as well as lived experience, the volume redresses the lack of emic scholarship in a field which has been often criticised as techno- and Eurocentric.

Across four thematic sections—‘Music Industry and Music Policy’, ‘Performing Publics’, ‘Protest, Resistance, and Violence’, and ‘Sonic Heritage’—contributors explore music archives and institutions, the politics of the music industry, performance and identity among Kurdish, queer, and migrant communities, and the sounds of protests, coups, and war. The first sound studies reader on Türkiye to integrate ethnomusicology, this volume is essential reading for those interested in Türkiye, especially scholars and students of sound studies and ethnomusicology, as well as musicians and sound artists.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Özgün, E. Sirin

Woodruff, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Akustik, Schwingungsanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Akustik, Tontechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

Preface and Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction: Listening to haunted soundscapes: Sonic imagination in Türkiye

Sirin Özgün

PART I

Music Industry and Music Policy

1 The Curious Case of Cancelled Performances: Silencing and Cultural Politics in AKP’s Türkiye

T. Deniz Erkmen

2 Sound of the Suppressed in a Transcultural City: Kurdish Rock Music in Istanbul

Günay Koçhan

3 Nekropsi and Replikas: The Istanbul Experimental Rock Scene, Alongside Social Movements and the Art World

Jeremy Woodruff

PART II

Performing Publics

4 State, Opposition, Diversity, and National Sound: Sonic Negotiations of Kurds in Türkiye Gönenç Hongur

5 Embodiments of Resistance: Queering Istanbul's Nightlife Spaces through Musical Bonding

Asli Kobaner

6 Harmonizing Diversity: The Experience of Kardes Türküler Project and the Transcultural Power of Music

Diler Özer

7 Transcultural Negotiations of Gender and Migration

Selda Öztürk

PART III

Protest, Resistance, and Violence

8 The Audibility of Resistance versus Nationalism in the Sound of Political Chant: Listening to Istanbul Political Demonstrations  Jeremy Woodruff

9 Istanbul Belliphonics: Music and Sound in the Days of a Military Coup Attempt

Sirin Özgün

10 Listening Through Dissent: A Collective Diary of Protest

Mert Alperten, Ayse Yörükoglu, Baturalp Özcan, Sirin Özgün

PART IV

Sonic Heritage

11 The Power of the Original: Authority of Music Archives in Türkiye

Martin Greve

12 Unsounding Pedagogy: Sonic Arts at the Center for Advanced Studies in Music

Reuben de Lautour

13 Lost in Transformation: The Historical Soundscape of the Rumeli Fortress in Istanbul

Suna Baslanti

14 On Auditory Politics and Haunted Soundscapes

Ebru Yetiskin, Brandon LaBelle

List of Tracks

Name Index

Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sirin Özgün is an ethnomusicologist whose work focuses on urban soundscapes, protest, gender, the sonic worlds of nomadic communities and archaeoacoustics in Türkiye. She studied Sociology at Bogaziçi University and Ethnomusicology at the Dr. Erol Üçer Centre for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) at Istanbul Technical University. She served as Vice Director of MIAM from 2014 to 2024 and teaches ethnomusicology there.

Jeremy Woodruff is a composer and researcher whose publications engage a wide range of sound studies and musicological topics, including protest, urban gardens, and transcultural music theory. Previously, he taught Composition, Music Theory, Sound Studies and Artistic Research at the Dr. Erol Üçer Centre for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM) at Istanbul Technical University and he is currently Senior Scientist, and Deputy Head of the Centre for Artistic Research (CEAR) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.