Sounding Roman

Contents

• Figures and Charts
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Transliteration
• About the Companion Website
• 0. Prelude: Sounding Social Identity
• 1. Towards a History of Social Construction:
• The Formation of Romani Groups in the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires
• 2. Romani Professional Entertainers in the Ottoman Empire:
• Melody Players and Merriment Makers
• 3. Inscribing cingene in Late Ottoman Cultural Forms
• 4. Exnominating Turk, Hyper-nominating cingene:
• Musical Representations of Ethnicity and Turkishness in the Early Republic
• 5. From cingene Accompanist to Instrumental Soloist: The New Roman Stars
• 6. Recording Roman: Sonic Representations on 45 rpm Recordings
• 7. The Poetics of Singing Roman:
• Metaphoricity to Mimesis in Roman Dance Songs
• 8. Presenting Turkish Roman:
• World Music and Musical Cosmopolitanisms
• 9. Politicizing Roman and the Folklorization of Ethnicity
• 10. Conclusions and Openings:
• The Promise and Limitations of Musical Plurality
• Notes
• References
• Index