As Turkey's most cosmopolitan city, Istanbul has long been an ever-changing, ever-expanding juncture for different music cultures. But among these, rebetiko constitutes a unique music scene, offering its adherents a substantial, multicultural yet tradition-driven and somewhat "alternative" experience. This ethnographic study of Istanbul's rebetiko scene offers a testimony of the city's re-emerging rebetiko music culture and examines the phenomenon from both anthropological and sociological viewpoints. It addresses the questions of rebetiko's end-of-the-millennium revival in Istanbul after several years of relative silence and of the motivations and artistic attitudes of rebetiko musicians, as well as an analysis of the socio-musical behaviors of rebetiko listeners. In this work the author invites you on a journey of exploration through different music venues on both sides of the Bosphorus, and seeks to answer these questions and others in an attempt to discover the contemporary meanings and representations of rebetiko music in Istanbul.

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PREFACE

PART I

The Emergence of Rebetiko Music Culture

Migration and Rebetiko Music: A Brief Socio-Historical Background

Cultural Configuration of the Post-Migration Period: Locating the Other within Rebetiko Culture

The Musical Framework of Rebetiko

PART II

Contemporary Rebetiko Music Scene in Istanbul

Music-Cultural Space of Rebetiko

Rebetiko as Performance: Rebetiko Musicians

Rebetiko as Experience: Socio-Musical Behavior of the Rebetiko Listeners

PART III

Redefining Rebetiko Culture in the 2000s

Multiculturalism and Rebetiko

Is Rebetiko Still a Subculture?

The Modern Self and Rebetiko

Questioning Rebetiko as a Form of Communitas

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