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Rethinking Spirituality through Music Education in Istanbul

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ID2631394
AuthorsBanu Senay (0000-0002-1064-5369, Macquarie University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume25
Issue25
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean journal of Turkish studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1773-0546 • E-ISSN: 1773-0546
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/ejts.5539
OpenAlexW2781000479
LanguageEN
References cited29

Recently there has been a massive new interest in Turkey in the artistic practice of ney [reed flute]-playing. For some, much of the inspiration driving this interest connects to a search for the “spiritual.” According to a popular discourse, there is no instrument more “natural” and “simple” than the ney. For others, inspired by the poetry of Rumi, the instrument’s sound draws oneself closer to the Divine. While a close connection exists between this “spiritualization” of the ney and contemporary commercial developments in the global and Turkish music industry, the Turkish state too has been active in creating meanings about the “spiritual ney” by incorporating it into its tourism industry and nationalist ideology. By contrast, the critical reflections of the master musicians that my fieldwork study examines suggest a very different conception of spirituality. Here the “spiritual” experience of this musical practice is understood to be grounded not in the sounds of the instrument itself, but in learning the art in a certain way

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Flute · Ideology · Islam · Linguistics · Literature · Musical · Nationalism · Poetry · Political science · Sociology · Spiritual practice · Spirituality · Theology · Turkish · Visual arts · Diverse Musicological Studies · Music Education and Analysis · Music History and Culture · Philosophy

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