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Books by Panagiotis Poulos
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](This book is an introductory handbook to the historical and ethnomusicological study of the music... more This book is an introductory handbook to the historical and ethnomusicological study of the musical traditions of the Islamic world. The aim of the book is to introduce its readers to the role and status of music in societies where Islam has historically been the predominant religion. The book is structured around three basic themes: Sources, Perspectives, Practices. Among the topics that are being explored is the relation between music, religion and ritual, the ways music is transmitted, musical orality and literacy, philosophical approaches to music and its conception as science and as art, its performative nature etc. Music is approached in relation to other forms of art (literature, iconography, architecture etc.) and to the various fields in which creativity is expressed in the Islamic world. Overall, the book aims to to contribute to a deeper and broader understanding of Islamic culture.
Edited volumes by Panagiotis Poulos
Kapon Editions, 2023
The book Ottoman Monuments in Greece: Heritages Under Negotiation approaches the Ottoman monument... more The book Ottoman Monuments in Greece: Heritages Under Negotiation approaches the Ottoman monuments of Greece as the heritage of a historical period that lends itself to multiple readings. This collective work brings together and array of studies, covering a wide range of disciplines, including history of art, archaeology, architecture, and urban studies. Through rich unpublished archival, photographic, and epigraphic material, the authors of this edited volume, enrich our knowledge of the emblematic Ottoman monuments of Greece cities and foreground unknown aspects of the architecture of rural Greece. In the pages of the book Ottoman Monuments in Greece: heritages under negotiation, the stories of places, buildings, and people from Ottoman era to present days come alive. These stories constitute a major contribution to the dialogue on the status and role of this special heritage for Modern Greece. The critical analyses featured in this edited volume renew and broaden the research conducted in the fields of Ottoman studies and cultural heritage.
Book chapters by Panagiotis Poulos
Poulos, Panagiotis C. 2021. ‘Figures and idols at the threshold of Ottoman modernity in Thessaloniki’. In E. Solomon and S. Galiniki (eds), “The work of magic art”. History, uses and meaning of the Incantadas monument of Thessaloniki, 191-201. Thessaloniki: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki., 2021
The testimony of the French diplomat Félix de Beaujour in the late 18th century regarding the Tu... more The testimony of the French diplomat Félix de Beaujour in the late 18th century regarding the Turkish name of the celebrated Incantadas triggered a series of creative interpretations of the phrase sureth maleh. Besides the issue of the meaning of this name, the relation of the city’s Muslim community with the particular antiquities and their stories remains relatively unknown and understudied.
Using as starting point the work of the poet Ahmet Meşhûrî (1783-1857), this study attempts a preliminary reading of 19th century Ottoman literary and historiographical sources about Thessaloniki. It aims to map the broader conceptual framework within which the perception and the way the Muslim community related to remnants of the past and to this particular monument can be placed. This corpus of texts is historically situated at the threshold of Ottoman modernity, which, among other factors, is defined by the construction of a primary archaeological conscience by the Ottoman state, but also of the conceptualization of the city’s heritage. The aim of this critical read- ing is to highlight the contradictions and ambiguities of this process.
This study focuses on the «in-between state» which characterizes the position of dragomans of the... more This study focuses on the «in-between state» which characterizes the position of dragomans of the Sublime Porte through the lens of cultural history and specifically through history of everyday-life and musical orality. The aim of the study is to highlight those aspects of inter-communal contacts and relations among dragomans that were situated on the fringes of writing and their rich textual output. Through the case of the polymath, musician and dragoman Wojciech Bobowski/Ali Ufkî (1610?-1675), this study questions the social and cultural boundaries of dragomans’ environment, around the period of the succession to the post from Panagiotis Nikousios to Alexandros Mavrokordatos.
Articles by Panagiotis Poulos
Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2022
This article examines the different registers of music interaction between Greek Orthodox and Jew... more This article examines the different registers of music interaction between Greek Orthodox and Jewish communities of Istanbul in the late Ottoman period. Intercommunal interaction is approached within the broader framework of modernization of music and in relation to the degree in which this interaction was implicated in the modernization process. New forms of music sociality related to music print and entertainment in which musicians and other agents from the two communities participated are analyzed in terms of their spatial dimension and as knots in a network of important locales within the city. This spatial approach challenges the centralized narratives concerning the modernization of Ottoman music and highlights the important role of local intermediaries and new economic patterns in shaping Ottoman musical modernity.
Poulos, Panagiotis C. and Kolovos, Elias. 2021. ‘Athens besieged: Greek and Ottoman perceptions of shifting space during the Greek Revolution of 1821’. Journal of Greek Media & Culture 7(2): 219–38., 2021
This article explores aspects of the quotidian history of space in the Greek Revolution of 1821, ... more This article explores aspects of the quotidian history of space in the Greek Revolution of 1821, using as a case study the transitional events of the siege of the Acropolis by the Ottoman army in 1826 and the recapturing of the city of Athens. Through a thorough study of space as embodied knowledge grounded in the dynamic interaction between humans and material culture, it identifies the shifts in the Athenian landscape during this period. Its findings are based on primary textual and visual sources pertaining to warfare, which are juxtaposed to the Greek and Ottoman emerging official perceptions of the significance of the city of Athens as a political and imaginary objective. The article deploys a phenomenological analysis of space that foregrounds the everyday experiential dimensions and is highly relevant in understanding the ideological and political complexities and implications of the shifting spatialities of the revolutionary period.
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies , 2019
The overall aim of this article has been to address those understated intermediary spaces that we... more The overall aim of this article has been to address those understated intermediary spaces that were produced in the context of musical interaction among the various communities residing in Istanbul in the Ottoman era. The underpinning theme in defining those spaces and tracing their dynamic trajectory throughout the history of the city has been the quest for voicing the diverse elements that composed them. This task has shown that the internal stratification of communities was often quite more multifaceted than previously thought and that the subsequent layers are not always easily traceable. As demonstrated, the internal diversity of communities was based both on the cultural and the social background of its members. Moreover, the makeup of each community and its musicians was constantly renewed through immigration. A consequent challenging question that needs to be addressed is whether and how this diversity was expressed in musical terms.
At a transitional phase in the history of Thessaloniki, many public buildings were requisitioned ... more At a transitional phase in the history of Thessaloniki, many public buildings were requisitioned to cover the urgent housing needs of the Asia Minor refugees who kept arriving to the city. The mosques of the city provided an instant means of shelter for refugees, as did the various Christian Orthodox churches that had been turned into mosques in Ottoman times and returned to the Greek community and to their initial usage following the incorporation of Thessaloniki in the Greek Kingdom. The changes in the usage of the buildings, which are documented in detail in the present article, played a part in the gradual obliteration from public space of the Muslim community and the recent Ottoman past, while they also attested and contributed to the refugee heritage of Thessaloniki.
A crucial but little explored dimension of the aforementioned changes concerns the sonic mark of religious buildings on public space. The pres- ent study focuses on this historical moment of transition for Thessaloniki, through the history of sound in the everyday life of these buildings. Through archival sources, oral testimonies and references in the press, we seek to document and uncover the aural dimension, which forms also an important aspect in the history of the refugee settlement in Thessaloniki.
is article examines the tensions surrounding the status of the Ottoman musical heritage in the co... more is article examines the tensions surrounding the status of the Ottoman musical heritage in the context of Turkey's modernizing program, through the study of the transformation of the oral transmission process of music, from the late Ottoman through the Republican period. Employing the concept of mediation, this study aims to underline the complexities of the contemporary creative process in Turkish classical music, as a means of challenging simplistic readings of the relation between Turkish modernity and music, based on binary oppositions such as oralityliteracy. Instead, this article situates this process in the 'in-between' spaces produced by Turkish modernity, tracing the continuities of the Ottoman musical tradition within Republican Turkey.
ένας από τους διακεκριµένους παίχτες του tanbur 2 της νέας γενιάς µουσικών της Τουρκίας, αναφερόµ... more ένας από τους διακεκριµένους παίχτες του tanbur 2 της νέας γενιάς µουσικών της Τουρκίας, αναφερόµενος στη γενεαλογία των παιχτών tanbur, στην οποία και ο ίδιος ανήκει, ταυτίζει το αρχικό σηµείο της παράδοσής τους µε αυτό των πρώτων διαθέσιµων ηχογραφήσεων, και πιο συγκεκριµένα µε αυτές του Tanburi Cemil Bey . Η ίδια ιστορική στιγµή έχει εξάλλου αξιολογηθεί από την κυρίαρχη τουρκική µουσική ιστοριογραφία ως σηµείο καµπής στην ιστορία της τουρκικής κλασικής µουσικής, 3 αφού σηµατοδοτεί τη ρήξη µε µία µακρά µουσική παράδοση. Η ρήξη αυτή έχει ταυτιστεί µε τον Tanburi Cemil Bey, στο πρόσωπο του οποίου η τουρκική µουσική ιστοριογραφία έχει αποδώσει την ιδιότητα του νεωτεριστή -είναι ενδεικτικό για παράδειγµα ότι πολύ συχνά γίνεται λόγος για «προ-» και «µετα-» Tanburi Cemil Bey περιόδους. Μέχρι πρόσφατα η παραπάνω περιοδολόγηση καθώς και ο λόγος 4 περί καινοτοµίας µε αφορµή τη φυσιογνωµία του Tanburi Cemil Bey αποτελούσαν παγιωµένες συνθήκες στο πλαίσιο της επίσηµης αφήγησης της µουσικής ιστορίας της Τουρκίας, πλην ελαχίστων εξαιρέσεων προερχοµένων κυρίως από την πλευρά νέων µελετητών που εκφράζουν µια πιο κριτική στάση απέναντι στο ζήτηµα.
This book is an introductory handbook to the historical and ethnomusicological study of the music... more This book is an introductory handbook to the historical and ethnomusicological study of the musical traditions of the Islamic world. The aim of the book is to introduce its readers to the role and status of music in societies where Islam has historically been the predominant religion. The book is structured around three basic themes: Sources, Perspectives, Practices. Among the topics that are being explored is the relation between music, religion and ritual, the ways music is transmitted, musical orality and literacy, philosophical approaches to music and its conception as science and as art, its performative nature etc. Music is approached in relation to other forms of art (literature, iconography, architecture etc.) and to the various fields in which creativity is expressed in the Islamic world. Overall, the book aims to to contribute to a deeper and broader understanding of Islamic culture.
Kapon Editions, 2023
The book Ottoman Monuments in Greece: Heritages Under Negotiation approaches the Ottoman monument... more The book Ottoman Monuments in Greece: Heritages Under Negotiation approaches the Ottoman monuments of Greece as the heritage of a historical period that lends itself to multiple readings. This collective work brings together and array of studies, covering a wide range of disciplines, including history of art, archaeology, architecture, and urban studies. Through rich unpublished archival, photographic, and epigraphic material, the authors of this edited volume, enrich our knowledge of the emblematic Ottoman monuments of Greece cities and foreground unknown aspects of the architecture of rural Greece. In the pages of the book Ottoman Monuments in Greece: heritages under negotiation, the stories of places, buildings, and people from Ottoman era to present days come alive. These stories constitute a major contribution to the dialogue on the status and role of this special heritage for Modern Greece. The critical analyses featured in this edited volume renew and broaden the research conducted in the fields of Ottoman studies and cultural heritage.
Poulos, Panagiotis C. 2021. ‘Figures and idols at the threshold of Ottoman modernity in Thessaloniki’. In E. Solomon and S. Galiniki (eds), “The work of magic art”. History, uses and meaning of the Incantadas monument of Thessaloniki, 191-201. Thessaloniki: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki., 2021
The testimony of the French diplomat Félix de Beaujour in the late 18th century regarding the Tu... more The testimony of the French diplomat Félix de Beaujour in the late 18th century regarding the Turkish name of the celebrated Incantadas triggered a series of creative interpretations of the phrase sureth maleh. Besides the issue of the meaning of this name, the relation of the city’s Muslim community with the particular antiquities and their stories remains relatively unknown and understudied.
Using as starting point the work of the poet Ahmet Meşhûrî (1783-1857), this study attempts a preliminary reading of 19th century Ottoman literary and historiographical sources about Thessaloniki. It aims to map the broader conceptual framework within which the perception and the way the Muslim community related to remnants of the past and to this particular monument can be placed. This corpus of texts is historically situated at the threshold of Ottoman modernity, which, among other factors, is defined by the construction of a primary archaeological conscience by the Ottoman state, but also of the conceptualization of the city’s heritage. The aim of this critical read- ing is to highlight the contradictions and ambiguities of this process.
This study focuses on the «in-between state» which characterizes the position of dragomans of the... more This study focuses on the «in-between state» which characterizes the position of dragomans of the Sublime Porte through the lens of cultural history and specifically through history of everyday-life and musical orality. The aim of the study is to highlight those aspects of inter-communal contacts and relations among dragomans that were situated on the fringes of writing and their rich textual output. Through the case of the polymath, musician and dragoman Wojciech Bobowski/Ali Ufkî (1610?-1675), this study questions the social and cultural boundaries of dragomans’ environment, around the period of the succession to the post from Panagiotis Nikousios to Alexandros Mavrokordatos.
Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2022
This article examines the different registers of music interaction between Greek Orthodox and Jew... more This article examines the different registers of music interaction between Greek Orthodox and Jewish communities of Istanbul in the late Ottoman period. Intercommunal interaction is approached within the broader framework of modernization of music and in relation to the degree in which this interaction was implicated in the modernization process. New forms of music sociality related to music print and entertainment in which musicians and other agents from the two communities participated are analyzed in terms of their spatial dimension and as knots in a network of important locales within the city. This spatial approach challenges the centralized narratives concerning the modernization of Ottoman music and highlights the important role of local intermediaries and new economic patterns in shaping Ottoman musical modernity.
Poulos, Panagiotis C. and Kolovos, Elias. 2021. ‘Athens besieged: Greek and Ottoman perceptions of shifting space during the Greek Revolution of 1821’. Journal of Greek Media & Culture 7(2): 219–38., 2021
This article explores aspects of the quotidian history of space in the Greek Revolution of 1821, ... more This article explores aspects of the quotidian history of space in the Greek Revolution of 1821, using as a case study the transitional events of the siege of the Acropolis by the Ottoman army in 1826 and the recapturing of the city of Athens. Through a thorough study of space as embodied knowledge grounded in the dynamic interaction between humans and material culture, it identifies the shifts in the Athenian landscape during this period. Its findings are based on primary textual and visual sources pertaining to warfare, which are juxtaposed to the Greek and Ottoman emerging official perceptions of the significance of the city of Athens as a political and imaginary objective. The article deploys a phenomenological analysis of space that foregrounds the everyday experiential dimensions and is highly relevant in understanding the ideological and political complexities and implications of the shifting spatialities of the revolutionary period.
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies , 2019
The overall aim of this article has been to address those understated intermediary spaces that we... more The overall aim of this article has been to address those understated intermediary spaces that were produced in the context of musical interaction among the various communities residing in Istanbul in the Ottoman era. The underpinning theme in defining those spaces and tracing their dynamic trajectory throughout the history of the city has been the quest for voicing the diverse elements that composed them. This task has shown that the internal stratification of communities was often quite more multifaceted than previously thought and that the subsequent layers are not always easily traceable. As demonstrated, the internal diversity of communities was based both on the cultural and the social background of its members. Moreover, the makeup of each community and its musicians was constantly renewed through immigration. A consequent challenging question that needs to be addressed is whether and how this diversity was expressed in musical terms.
At a transitional phase in the history of Thessaloniki, many public buildings were requisitioned ... more At a transitional phase in the history of Thessaloniki, many public buildings were requisitioned to cover the urgent housing needs of the Asia Minor refugees who kept arriving to the city. The mosques of the city provided an instant means of shelter for refugees, as did the various Christian Orthodox churches that had been turned into mosques in Ottoman times and returned to the Greek community and to their initial usage following the incorporation of Thessaloniki in the Greek Kingdom. The changes in the usage of the buildings, which are documented in detail in the present article, played a part in the gradual obliteration from public space of the Muslim community and the recent Ottoman past, while they also attested and contributed to the refugee heritage of Thessaloniki.
A crucial but little explored dimension of the aforementioned changes concerns the sonic mark of religious buildings on public space. The pres- ent study focuses on this historical moment of transition for Thessaloniki, through the history of sound in the everyday life of these buildings. Through archival sources, oral testimonies and references in the press, we seek to document and uncover the aural dimension, which forms also an important aspect in the history of the refugee settlement in Thessaloniki.
is article examines the tensions surrounding the status of the Ottoman musical heritage in the co... more is article examines the tensions surrounding the status of the Ottoman musical heritage in the context of Turkey's modernizing program, through the study of the transformation of the oral transmission process of music, from the late Ottoman through the Republican period. Employing the concept of mediation, this study aims to underline the complexities of the contemporary creative process in Turkish classical music, as a means of challenging simplistic readings of the relation between Turkish modernity and music, based on binary oppositions such as oralityliteracy. Instead, this article situates this process in the 'in-between' spaces produced by Turkish modernity, tracing the continuities of the Ottoman musical tradition within Republican Turkey.
ένας από τους διακεκριµένους παίχτες του tanbur 2 της νέας γενιάς µουσικών της Τουρκίας, αναφερόµ... more ένας από τους διακεκριµένους παίχτες του tanbur 2 της νέας γενιάς µουσικών της Τουρκίας, αναφερόµενος στη γενεαλογία των παιχτών tanbur, στην οποία και ο ίδιος ανήκει, ταυτίζει το αρχικό σηµείο της παράδοσής τους µε αυτό των πρώτων διαθέσιµων ηχογραφήσεων, και πιο συγκεκριµένα µε αυτές του Tanburi Cemil Bey . Η ίδια ιστορική στιγµή έχει εξάλλου αξιολογηθεί από την κυρίαρχη τουρκική µουσική ιστοριογραφία ως σηµείο καµπής στην ιστορία της τουρκικής κλασικής µουσικής, 3 αφού σηµατοδοτεί τη ρήξη µε µία µακρά µουσική παράδοση. Η ρήξη αυτή έχει ταυτιστεί µε τον Tanburi Cemil Bey, στο πρόσωπο του οποίου η τουρκική µουσική ιστοριογραφία έχει αποδώσει την ιδιότητα του νεωτεριστή -είναι ενδεικτικό για παράδειγµα ότι πολύ συχνά γίνεται λόγος για «προ-» και «µετα-» Tanburi Cemil Bey περιόδους. Μέχρι πρόσφατα η παραπάνω περιοδολόγηση καθώς και ο λόγος 4 περί καινοτοµίας µε αφορµή τη φυσιογνωµία του Tanburi Cemil Bey αποτελούσαν παγιωµένες συνθήκες στο πλαίσιο της επίσηµης αφήγησης της µουσικής ιστορίας της Τουρκίας, πλην ελαχίστων εξαιρέσεων προερχοµένων κυρίως από την πλευρά νέων µελετητών που εκφράζουν µια πιο κριτική στάση απέναντι στο ζήτηµα.
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2011
This article examines the tensions surrounding the status of the Ottoman musical heritage in the ... more This article examines the tensions surrounding the status of the Ottoman musical heritage in the context of Turkey's modernizing program, through the study of the transformation of the oral transmission process of music, from the late Ottoman through the Republican period. Employing the concept of mediation, this study aims to underline the complexities of the contemporary creative process in Turkish classical music, as a means of challenging simplistic readings of the relation between Turkish modernity and music, based on binary oppositions such as orality-literacy. Instead, this article situates this process in the 'in-between' spaces produced by Turkish modernity, tracing the continuities of the Ottoman musical tradition within Republican Turkey.
Ethnomusicology Forum, Sep 2, 2014
Journal of Greek media and culture, Oct 1, 2021
This article explores aspects of the quotidian history of space in the Greek Revolution of 1821, ... more This article explores aspects of the quotidian history of space in the Greek Revolution of 1821, using as a case study the transitional events of the siege of the Acropolis by the Ottoman army in 1826 and the recapturing of the city of Athens. Through a thorough study of space as embodied knowledge grounded in the dynamic interaction between humans and material culture, it identifies the shifts in the Athenian landscape during this period. Its findings are based on primary textual and visual sources pertaining to warfare, which are juxtaposed to the Greek and Ottoman emerging official perceptions of the significance of the city of Athens as a political and imaginary objective. The article deploys a phenomenological analysis of space that foregrounds the everyday experiential dimensions and is highly relevant in understanding the ideological and political complexities and implications of the shifting spatialities of the revolutionary period.
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2017
Bu makale, Osmanli Istanbul'unda farkli cemaatler arasi muzikal iliskiler kurulmasina izin ve... more Bu makale, Osmanli Istanbul'unda farkli cemaatler arasi muzikal iliskiler kurulmasina izin veren mekânlarin izini surmektedir.
Ethnomusicology Forum, 2014
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2011
This article examines the tensions surrounding the status of the Ottoman musical heritage in the ... more This article examines the tensions surrounding the status of the Ottoman musical heritage in the context of Turkey's modernizing program, through the study of the transformation of the oral transmission process of music, from the late Ottoman through the Republican period. Employing the concept of mediation, this study aims to underline the complexities of the contemporary creative process in Turkish classical music, as a means of challenging simplistic readings of the relation between Turkish modernity and music, based on binary oppositions such as orality-literacy. Instead, this article situates this process in the 'in-between' spaces produced by Turkish modernity, tracing the continuities of the Ottoman musical tradition within Republican Turkey.
Middle Eastern Studies, 2016
Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Moderne et Contemporain, Dec 31, 2021
At different levels, times utilize one and the same building, which, while at first might have be... more At different levels, times utilize one and the same building, which, while at first might have been a church, it then became a mosque, coffee shop, pharmacy, telephone centre, tobacco storage, restaurant, office, cabaret and cinema. This last phrase clearly refers to the building known as "Alkazar," in front of Caravan Serai, where need forced the dense coexistence of massive populations. 8 entanglements with the life trajectories of those who force-migrated to and from Turkey. These interactions and affiliations, we argue, are the proof of connected points and continuities with the building's past sensorial regime. We thus underscore the potential of a new materialist approach to social history and to the study of transitions, particularly those from empire to nation state.
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2017
Bulletin de correspondance hellénique moderne et contemporain, 2021
Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2017
Thessaloniki, 2020
Parts of the modern city's function as the classical locus of collective memory 2 are its soundsc... more Parts of the modern city's function as the classical locus of collective memory 2 are its soundscapes. 3 They provide access to overlapping acoustic communities that construct and experience them, to which they are meaningful and intelligible. 4 The various soundmarks of these communities (ranging from religious sound practices, such as church bells and calls to prayer, to the sounds of craftsmen and music-making) shape individual and collective identities (ethnic, gendered, religious, professional) and help community members make sense of urban culture overall. 5 Salonica qualifies beyond doubt as such a modern city, having undergone over the twentieth century-and especially its first half-a rapid transformation of its soundscapes that both reflect and articulate changes in its social and material fabric. 6
The Annual of the British School at Athens, 2020
In May 2019 the British School at Athens hosted an international conference on popular music of t... more In May 2019 the British School at Athens hosted an international conference on popular music of the Greek world. The conference aimed to explore and evaluate the diversity of Greek music apparent in the rich variety of local traditions and in the richness of urban popular music both established and emerging, and to examine its causes from broader musical, sociological and artistic perspectives. Rather than focus on particular forms, such as traditional folk music, rebetika, or the ‘new wave’ of the 1960s exemplified by the international success of composers such as Hadjidakis and Theodorakis, the conference set out to situate these traditions in a broader Greek context and also an explicitly international one, in this way building upon a growing trend (Bucuvalas 2019; Tragaki 2019).
Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2023
Rum Geographies is a special dossier, edited, with an introduction, by Christine Philliou, and pu... more Rum Geographies is a special dossier, edited, with an introduction, by Christine Philliou, and published in JOTSA 9/1 (Spring 2022): 13-123 (for the publication news of this issue, see below). At this W’OTSAp session, three of the four contributors to this dossier, Evangelia Achladi (Sismanoglio Megaro Library - Consulate General of Greece in Istanbul), Gülen Göktürk Baltas (Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi), and Panagiotis C. Poulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) will present summaries of their contributions. You can read the complete texts of their contributions online at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/49708.
Watch the panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC0dpS7gejk
The musical life of Istanbul during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries echoed the shift... more The musical life of Istanbul during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries echoed the shifting political and social situation of the Ottoman Empire. Major transformations like the decline of traditional forms of patronage of Ottoman music like the Court and the emergence of new patterns of sociality and public entertainment had also a significant impact on the geography of musical activity in the city. In this context, the spatial dimension of music reinforced and sustained cultural distinctions between different social groups and communities that were responding to Ottoman modernity. This lecture attempts to map the changing musical topography of late Ottoman Istanbul and to explore the spatial boundaries and overlaps of the various musical domains through the itineraries of particular musicians.
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](Μια δεκαετία μετά την εμβληματική έκδοση του Υπουργείου Πολιτισμού «Η Οθωμανική Αρχιτεκτονική στη... more Μια δεκαετία μετά την εμβληματική έκδοση του Υπουργείου Πολιτισμού «Η Οθωμανική Αρχιτεκτονική στην Ελλάδα» η οποία ενέγραψε στη δημόσια σφαίρα το κρατικό ενδιαφέρον για τη διαφύλαξη, μελέτη και ανάδειξη της υλικής κληρονομιάς της οθωμανικής περιόδου, η κληρονομιά αυτή παραμένει αμφιλεγόμενη. Η ορατότητα ή ακόμα η συνύφανση ή και η οργανική ενσωμάτωση των οθωμανικών μνημείων στο αστικό τοπίο πολλών νεοελληνικών πόλεων τα καθιστούν σε ορισμένες περιπτώσεις «μνημονικούς εισβολείς». Με αυτό τον εμπρόθετο ρόλο που εκπορεύεται από την υλικότητά τους τα μνημεία τροφοδοτούν τον δημόσιο διάλογο, ενώ ταυτόχρονα μετατρέπονται τα ίδια σε πεδίο αντιπαραθέσεων, προβολής ιδεολογιών και άσκησης εξουσιών. Υπό αυτήν την έννοια, η οθωμανική κληρονομιά αποτελεί μια κληρονομιά υπό συνεχή διαπραγμάτευση. Η πολιτική της διάσταση εντείνει και υπογραμμίζει την πρωταρχική ανάγκη για τη συστηματική επιστημονική τεκμηρίωση και μελέτη της.
Histories, Spaces and Heritages at the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek State is a... more Histories, Spaces and Heritages at the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Greek State is a research project that explores the historical trajectories of urban space from the Ottoman
Empire to the modern Greek state. The histories and/or ‘stories’ of this shifting urban space are studied in their intersensorial dimension, highlighting the dynamic interplay between materiality and its multifaceted conceptualizations.
The aims of the project is to concentrate on the development of a methodological model for studying the sensory history of Ottoman urban spaces in transition and to explore the contemporary politics of historical memory as articulated in the Greek and European public
sphere, through the opening up of a dialogue with the broader community of professionals and practitioners.
This project brings together methodological tools and analytical concepts from the fields of cultural history, archaeology, urban studies, ethnomusicology and anthropology, a multidisciplinary model that interacts with the current trends in the broader feld of digital
humanities both on a local and international level.
