Turkish music: a cultural cartographical survey What is today called Turkish music seems to be largely coming from Anatolia, but it also comes from the western side of the Bosporus. All this variety of music is in fact part of a widespread culture belonging to the larger area the …
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Cartography Greece is part of one of the Balkan peninsulas. One of the best known musical traditions from Greece is called Rembetika. To understand Balkan music, one first has to understand some cartography. Due to a turbulent past, today there are basically two interpretations of what the Balkans are: …
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Cartography Bosnia today is part of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and this in turn is part of one of the Balkan peninsulas. Bosnia’s best known musical tradition is called Sevdah. To understand Balkan music, one first has to understand some cartography. Due to a turbulent past, today there are basically two …
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Balkan cartography Let us first look at a historical map of the Balkans during Ottoman times in 1699: To understand Balkan music, one first has to understand some cartography. Due to a turbulent past, today there are basically two interpretations of what the Balkans are: a narrow one, including …
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