Rethinking Spirituality through Music Education in Istanbul

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2631394
AutoresBanu Senay (0000-0002-1064-5369, Macquarie University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen25
Número25
Fecha de publicación2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean journal of Turkish studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1773-0546 • E-ISSN: 1773-0546
EditorialOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/ejts.5539
OpenAlexW2781000479
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas29

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