Research Article

OTTOMAN MUSLIM MUSICIANS DRIFTING THROUGH THE TANZIMAT ERA: FROM BEGGARS TO FREED LABORERS

Volume: 6 Number: 1 June 30, 2023
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OTTOMAN MUSLIM MUSICIANS DRIFTING THROUGH THE TANZIMAT ERA: FROM BEGGARS TO FREED LABORERS

Abstract

ABSTRACT After exploring the study of ney teachers and their sonic spirituality in Istanbul from an ethnographic approach, I have seen many of my interlocutors these days dwelling in a conundrum in which most of them see themselves as living links of previous social orders, somehow lost and regained during the present. The closure of dervish lodges during the early days of the Turkish Republic, as much as the historic restoration and reopening of some of these venues in recent decades, are often presented as outcomes of a social transformation caused by a given moral rationality embedded within the new institutions of an emergent nation. From this point of view, individuals are seen in a distorted way as related –or opposed– to these institutions, thus, flattening their own dimension and the ways in which their sedimented co-constitution as individuals have emerged before 1924. Beyond the debate about the authenticity of the so-called Sufi music, or whether there are “real dervishes” in today’s Istanbul or not, this article looks back at the historical period in which tekkes and Sufi lodges were banned and closed to suggest that this closure opened an emergent form of labor that transformed the subjectivity of Turk-Ottoman instructors during the early twentieth century. Like an old watch that is repaired and rearranged to vindicate the present moment (Castrillón 2021), caretakers of Tasavvuf sonic repertoires are unavoidably embedded in larger systems of tension and movement that require constant tuning and interpretation.

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Supporting Institution

Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Thanks

Dr. Recep Uslu and Dr. Walter Feldman

References

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Music

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

June 30, 2023

Submission Date

May 19, 2023

Acceptance Date

June 15, 2023

Published in Issue

Year 2023 Volume: 6 Number: 1

APA
Castrillón, J. (2023). OTTOMAN MUSLIM MUSICIANS DRIFTING THROUGH THE TANZIMAT ERA: FROM BEGGARS TO FREED LABORERS. Yegah Müzikoloji Dergisi, 6(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.51576/ymd.1299352
AMA
1.Castrillón J. OTTOMAN MUSLIM MUSICIANS DRIFTING THROUGH THE TANZIMAT ERA: FROM BEGGARS TO FREED LABORERS. YMJ. 2023;6(1):1-14. doi:10.51576/ymd.1299352
Chicago
Castrillón, Juan. 2023. “OTTOMAN MUSLIM MUSICIANS DRIFTING THROUGH THE TANZIMAT ERA: FROM BEGGARS TO FREED LABORERS”. Yegah Müzikoloji Dergisi 6 (1): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.51576/ymd.1299352.
EndNote
Castrillón J (June 1, 2023) OTTOMAN MUSLIM MUSICIANS DRIFTING THROUGH THE TANZIMAT ERA: FROM BEGGARS TO FREED LABORERS. Yegah Müzikoloji Dergisi 6 1 1–14.
IEEE
[1]J. Castrillón, “OTTOMAN MUSLIM MUSICIANS DRIFTING THROUGH THE TANZIMAT ERA: FROM BEGGARS TO FREED LABORERS”, YMJ, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1–14, June 2023, doi: 10.51576/ymd.1299352.
ISNAD
Castrillón, Juan. “OTTOMAN MUSLIM MUSICIANS DRIFTING THROUGH THE TANZIMAT ERA: FROM BEGGARS TO FREED LABORERS”. Yegah Müzikoloji Dergisi 6/1 (June 1, 2023): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.51576/ymd.1299352.
JAMA
1.Castrillón J. OTTOMAN MUSLIM MUSICIANS DRIFTING THROUGH THE TANZIMAT ERA: FROM BEGGARS TO FREED LABORERS. YMJ. 2023;6:1–14.
MLA
Castrillón, Juan. “OTTOMAN MUSLIM MUSICIANS DRIFTING THROUGH THE TANZIMAT ERA: FROM BEGGARS TO FREED LABORERS”. Yegah Müzikoloji Dergisi, vol. 6, no. 1, June 2023, pp. 1-14, doi:10.51576/ymd.1299352.
Vancouver
1.Juan Castrillón. OTTOMAN MUSLIM MUSICIANS DRIFTING THROUGH THE TANZIMAT ERA: FROM BEGGARS TO FREED LABORERS. YMJ. 2023 Jun. 1;6(1):1-14. doi:10.51576/ymd.1299352

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