Eliot Bates

Digital Tradition (eBook, PDF)

Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul's Recording Studio Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Istanbul is home to a multimillion dollar transnational music industry, which every year produces thousands of digital music recordings, including widely distributed film and television show soundtracks. Today, this centralized industry is responding to a growing global demand for Turkish, Kurdish, and other Anatolian ethnic language productions, and every year, many of its top-selling records incorporate elaborately orchestrated arrangements of rural folksongs. What accounts for the continuing demand for traditional music in local and diasporic markets? How is tradition produced in twenty-first century digital recording studios, and is there a "digital aesthetics" to contemporary recordings of traditional music? In Digital Traditions: Arrangement and Labor in Istanbul's Recording Studio Culture, author Eliot Bates answers these questions and more with a case study into the contemporary practices of recording traditional music in Istanbul. Bates provides an ethnography of Turkish recording studios, of arrangers and engineers, studio musicianship and digital audio workstation kinesthetics. Digital Traditions investigates the moments when tradition is arranged, and how arrangement is simultaneously a set of technological capabilities, limitations and choices: a form of musical practice that desocializes the ensemble and generates an extended network of social relations, resulting in aesthetic art objects that come to be associated with a range of affective and symbolic meanings. Rich with visual analysis and drawing on Science & Technology Studies theories and methods, Digital Traditions sets a new standard for the study of recorded music. Scholars and general readers of ethnomusicology, Middle Eastern studies, folklore and science and technology studies are sure to find Digital Traditions an essential addition to their library.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190215767
• Artikelnr.: 48793192

Autorenporträt

Dr. Eliot Bates is a scholar whose work focuses on the creative use of digital music technologies and the growth of hybrid digital music economies. An ethnomusicologist by training, he has conducted over three years of field research in Turkey, and is the author of Music in Turkey: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (OUP, 2011) and articles on musical instruments, aesthetics, studio architecture, and the emergence of an industry for Anatolian minority language popular musics. Eliot is a Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK). In addition to his scholarly interests, since 1994 Eliot has been a performer and recording artist on the oud, most recently (with organist Baby Dee) recording and performing as The Big Bumble Bees.

Inhaltsangabe

* Contents * List of illustrations * Preface and acknowledgments * Notes about language * Map of Turkey * Part 1: A digital tradition of arrangement * Chapter 1: Arrangement and engineering * Arrangement and arrangers * Engineering and engineers * Social, technical, musical things * Research methodology * Chapter 2: Tradition * Discourses of tradition and place * Problems of place and identity * Traditions of work * Part 2: Arranged histories and arrangement industries * Chapter 3: Arranged folklore in early Republican Turkey * The demand for folklore * A source-resource model for analyzing derleme * Folklore at the birth of the Republic * Folklore institutions during the one-party era * Folklore and mass-media in the multi-party era * Musical practices of arrangement, cleaning and restoration * Cultural geographies of village, town, city and nation * Postscript: revisiting Altun Karahan * Chapter 4: The Anatolian "ethnic" music industry * The growth of Turkey's recorded music industry * Industries and ortak-s * Ethnic language politics and emerging markets * University ensembles: Grup Yorum, Karde
Türküler and Zu
äi Berepe * Organizational and production networks: the role and legacy of Kalan Müzik Yapim * Concerns with foreign perceptions * Social networks and the nature of professions * Negotiating outside actors * Part 3: The recording studio assemblage in Istanbul * Chapter 5: The experience of studio work * Auditory images and "visions" of the song arrangement * Studio listening modalities and technologies of audition * Latencies * Built environments and social dynamics * Chapter 6: Digital * Hearing digital data, visualizing Anatolian soundings: synesthesia in the studio * Digital audio, music, and non-musical sound * Acoustic instruments and indirect computer users * Chapter 7: Aesthetic keywords of the studio * Introduction * Denge/denk/denk gelmek: balance and suitability * Fena de
il and oldu galiba: the aesthetics of "not bad" when mixes happen * Tav
r, yorum and the art of interpretation * Renk enstrümanlar
* Parlak and büyük ses * Aesthetic relations * Part 4: Case studies in arranged music * Chapter 8: Arranged music and the dönem filmi genre * Analyzing film music and sound * The d:onem filmi genre * Vizontele (2001) and the formation of a new film music genre * Beynelmilel (2006) and the problems of leitmotif * Özlem Taner's "Kara Tren/ Seher :Inende" * D:onem films as technological tragic comedies * Chapter 9: Arranging the Black Sea * Finding the Karadeniz * G:okhan Birben, "Hele Mele" (on the outside) * G:okhan Birben, "Denizde Dalga Birdur" (there's a wave in the ocean) * Bizim Yäar Kabaosmano
lu, "Nenni Nenni" * Fatih Yäar "Sirlarumi Söyledum" (I told my secrets to the smoke on the mountain) * Fatih Yäar "Çiktum Yüksek Dälara" (I headed up the high mountain) * Ay
enur Kolivar, "Mavili E
arbumi / Lafun Aykirisi" (Blue scarf / Against this nonsense) * Chapter 10: Towards a methodology for the study of digital music production * Methodological Implications * Glossary * Bibliography * Mediagraphy (audio recordings, feature films, and TV shows) * Index