Abstract
The name attached to the voice is that of Enver Demirbağ (1935-2010). There is little dispute about that. But what voice this is, and who is speaking with it, is very much open to question. Was it the voice of Palu, the former Ottoman administrative centre - now a small city in eastern Turkey - where he was born? Or of Elazığ, the provincial city that a declining Palu was later attached to, and where he was to die under tragic circumstances? Is it the voice of the region – with its complex ethnic entanglements? Or of the modern Turkish state’s, with its well-known denials of those very entanglements? Is it the voice of a semi-feudal world, with its ‘sheikhs and beys’, or the voice of the modern state and its citizenry?
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Ethnomusicology and its Intimacies |
| Subtitle of host publication | Essays in Honour of John Baily |
| Editors | Stephen Cottrell, Dafni Tragaki, Stephen Wilford |
| Place of Publication | New York and London |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | 7 |
| Pages | 123-139 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 0781003365792 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781032431314, 9781032431321 |
| Publication status | Published - 2024 |