Where is the Homeland in My Music?: Interhomelands Migration

Year 2019, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 178 - 191, 31.12.2019

Belma Oğul

https://doi.org/10.33906/musicologist.660768

Abstract

There are different types of migration,
however, new concepts and redefinitions of certain concepts are needed, because
of the changing reasons for migration as well as various imaginings of the
places and spaces in concrete and virtual terms. This paper coins the phrase
’interhomeland migration’ as a type of migration through addressing how the
concept of homeland is constructed through affect, and who constitutes this
migrant type.

The data, obtained from fieldwork executed
with those who identify themselves as Bosniaks (especially in Istanbul and
nearby cities) since 2004 and with the Turkish-speaking people living in Bulgaria
between 2013 and 201,5 is assessed by the means of analyses of both the
discourses and various musical elements. In these examples, the affect of
homeland is constituted by religion, flag, blood, land, especially fighting for
the sake of this land, vague and non-objective nationalist concepts, shared
historical and cultural background, such as musical values in addition to born
and grown lands. Interhomelands migrant type experiences the affects containing
contrasts all together such as feeling alike, feeling strange, feeling the
belonging. These affects cause to uncover the similarities on the one hand and
on the contrary to underline the dissimilarities on the other hand.

Keywords

Migration, Homeland, Sociology of Affects, Music

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