Metaphoricity, Iconicity and Mimesis: Towards a Musical Semantics of Social Identity in Turkish Roman Music -- Sonia Seeman
Event Start:
Tue, 11/10/2009 - 4:00pm
Location:
The Center for Ethnomusicology, 701C Dodge Hall
Tuesday, November 10 at 4pm in 701C, Center for Ethnomusicology
Sonia Seeman
Metaphoricity, Iconicity and Mimesis: Towards a Musical
Semantics of Social Identity in Turkish Roman (“Gypsy”) MusicAbstract: One primary concern of musicology and ethnomusicology has been refining theoretical tools for analyzing the role of musical practices in constructing, maintaining and challenging social identity. This paper investigates the process by which social meanings are ascribed to sound through the example of a Turkish genre, Roman (“Gypsy”) dance tune (Roman oyun havası). By focusing on emergent moments in which successful---and failed---linkages are formed between ideological referents and sound in varied contexts, this paper explores the semantic dimensions of metaphor theory for understanding the means by which representations of social identity are formed through engagement with music.