The Embeddedness and Adumbration Cases of Ritual Music in Anatolian Sufism Cover Image

Anadolu Tasavvufunda Ritüel Müziğinin ‘Kültüre Gömülü Olma’ (Embeddedness) ve ‘Aniştirilma’ (Adumbration) Durumlari
The Embeddedness and Adumbration Cases of Ritual Music in Anatolian Sufism

Author(s): Banu Mustan Sönmez
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Music, Islam studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: Anatolian Sufism; Embeddednes; Adumbration; Metaphor;

Summary/Abstract: According to ethnomusicological theories, music is embedded in different patterns in different cultures. The embeddedness of music in the culture prepares the prerequisite of adumbration which is formed especially in the ritual music. In this study, the appearance of embeddedness in the culture and the adumbration cases in the Anatolian ritual music has been handled. The metaphor of ‘yakma’ and ‘yanik’ (to burn and burn) used for composing and performing music; the metaphor of ‘reciting’ (khandan / okumak), used for vocal performances in Turkish language; the word ‘nefes’ which is a kind of Alevi religious music and the metaphor of telli kur’an (Quran with string) used for baglama (Turkish string instrument) in Alevism have been analysed in terms of Anatolian sufism and in the context of ‘embeddedness’ and ‘adumbration’ cases.

  • Issue Year: 15/2009
  • Issue No: 58
  • Page Range: 107-115
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Turkish