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Journals / Toplum ve Bilim / 2009 / Sayı: 114

Gypsyness and gypsy music performance in world music discourses: The case of Selim Sesler and Hüsnü Şenlendirici

Dünya müziği (world music) söylemlerinde romanlık ve roman müzik icrası: Selim Sesler ve Hüsnü Şenlendirici örneği

KORAY DEĞİRMENCİ
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159–187
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The discussion unbundles these various elements of Romanness and traces their articulation into world music discourses.

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Objective & Hypothesis:This article examines two of the most popular 'Roman' (gypsy) musicians in the Turkish world music market, Selim Sesler and Hüsnü Şenlendirici.
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Key Findings & Data:On the one hand, Romanness symbolizes popular Roman images and their associated notions (such as Roman community or locality, performance styles associated with gypsies, ethnicity, life styles, etc.); but on the other hand, Romanness is used to constitute various marketing discourses of world music (such as the senses of sincerity, locality, exoticity, genuineness, pristineness, authenticity, etc).
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Conclusion & Impact:The discussion unbundles these various elements of Romanness and traces their articulation into world music discourses.
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This article examines two of the most popular 'Roman' (gypsy) musicians in the Turkish world music market, Selim Sesler and Hüsnü Şenlendirici. The article discusses how the notions of gypsyness (Romanness) and the gypsy community and locality are discursively articulated and reconstructed so as to constitute particular elements of 'world music' discourses in Turkey. Romanness and its associated elements wear many masks in this discursive process. On the one hand, Romanness symbolizes popular Roman images and their associated notions (such as Roman community or locality, performance styles associated with gypsies, ethnicity, life styles, etc.); but on the other hand, Romanness is used to constitute various marketing discourses of world music (such as the senses of sincerity, locality, exoticity, genuineness, pristineness, authenticity, etc). Despite their seeming disparity, these discourses of Romanness are oftentimes overlapped and redefined; or they replace each other when they are used in the formation of the marketing strategies and musical subjectivities of the actors. The discussion unbundles these various elements of Romanness and traces their articulation into world music discourses.

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DEĞİRMENCİ, K. (2009). Gypsyness and gypsy music performance in world music discourses: The case of Selim Sesler and Hüsnü Şenlendirici. Toplum ve Bilim, Sayı: 114, 159–187. https://ajindex.com/articles/366969

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