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Musical ethics and Islam : the art of playing the ney
- Title
- Musical ethics and Islam : the art of playing the ney / Banu Şenay.
- Author
- Şenay, Banu
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
- ©2020
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- Description
- xi, 223 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This project is the first book length study of the ney, the Sufi reed flute long associated with Islam and disdained after the establishment of the Turkish Republic. Based on extensive field research and an apprentice-style method of inquiry, the book explores the remarkable revival of ney-playing among urban dwellers in Turkey today: in Istanbul and other urban centers, and in a plethora of new pedagogical sites ranging from private ney studios to cultural and religious associations, from university clubs to local mosque organizations. The author, Banu Şenay, documents the lifelong preparation required to become a skilled practitioner of the ney, examining in particular the transformative power of this Islamic art pedagogy to cultivate new aesthetic and ethical perceptions in learners. Şenay's ethnography shows how the learning process transcends musical technique, entailing not only an embodied, sensory disciplining of the body, but socialization of learners into new ways of being as well as into new ways of relating to other selves. Exploring firsthand the practical process of musical teaching and learning, together with its ethical scaffolding, the book has theoretical implications for scholars studying many forms of apprentice-style learning. It also helps redress the underdeveloped understandings and often-polemical claims made in both the media and by Islamophobic discourse concerning processes by which Muslims develop a religious and moral sense"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-213) and index.
- Contents
- A biography of the ney -- Breath and reed -- Mode and mood -- Improvisation and journey -- Master speakers, master listeners -- Music and ethical modification -- Musical Islam.
- Call Number
- JME 21-404
- ISBN
- 9780252043024
- 0252043022
- 9780252084881
- 0252084888
- LCCN
- 2019037836
- OCLC
- 1117310111
- Author
- Şenay, Banu, author.
- Title
- Musical ethics and Islam : the art of playing the ney / Banu Şenay.
- Publisher
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-213) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Şenay, Banu Musical ethics and Islam Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020. 9780252051883 (DLC) 2019037837
- Research Call Number
- JME 21-404