Istanbul is home to a multimillion dollar transnational music
industry, which every year produces thousands of digital music
recordings, including widely distributed film and television show
soundtracks. Today, this centralized industry is responding to a
growing global demand for Turkish, Kurdish, and other Anatolian
ethnic language productions, and every year, many of its
top-selling records incorporate elaborately orchestrated
arrangements of rural folksongs. What accounts for the continuing
demand for traditional music in local and diasporic markets? How is
tradition produced in twenty-first century digital recording
studios, and is there a "digital aesthetics" to contemporary
recordings of traditional music? In Digital Traditions: Arrangement
and Labor in Istanbul's Recording Studio Culture, author Eliot
Bates answers these questions and more with a case study into the
contemporary practices of recording traditional music in Istanbul.
Bates provides an ethnography of Turkish recording studios, of
arrangers and engineers, studio musicianship and digital audio
workstation kinesthetics. Digital Traditions investigates the
moments when tradition is arranged, and how arrangement is
simultaneously a set of technological capabilities, limitations and
choices: a form of musical practice that desocializes the ensemble
and generates an extended network of social relations, resulting in
aesthetic art objects that come to be associated with a range of
affective and symbolic meanings. Rich with visual analysis and
drawing on Science & Technology Studies theories and methods,
Digital Tradition sets a new standard for the study of recorded
music. Scholars and general readers of ethnomusicology, Middle
Eastern studies, folklore and science and technology studies are
sure to find Digital Traditions an essential addition to their
library.
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