Banu Senay is a lecturer in the department of anthropology at Macquarie University, Australia. She is the author of Beyond Turkey's Borders: Long-distance Kemalism, State Politics, and the Turkish Diaspora.

"Musical Ethics and Islam is easy on the mind's eye and the ear, full of insight, and a genuine pleasure to read. ªenay well understands her instrument, the crafting of its sounds and the complex demands of her teacher's 'jealous gift'. It charts a new and distinct route through the cultural complexities of Islamic revival in Turkey and beyond; her conclusions will be of real interest to anthropologists of music and of Islam alike."—Martin Stokes, coeditor of Islam and Popular Culture"Musical Ethics and Islam is a ground-breaking ethnography of the interplay of aesthetic experience and social ideology, art and life. Banu Senay expertly interleaves personal experiences of 'sweet servitude' to a ney master with luminous accounts of the ethical, affective, and political aspects of music in post-Kemalist Turkey and the ney revival of recent years."—Michael Jackson, author of The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One. A Biography of the NeyChapter Two. Breath and ReedChapter Three. Mode and MoodChapter Four. Improvisation and JourneyChapter Five. Master Speakers, Master ListenersChapter Six. Music and Ethical ModificationChapter Seven. Musical IslamConclusionNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndexBack cover

Banu Senay is a lecturer in the department of anthropology at Macquarie University, Australia. She is the author of Beyond Turkey's Borders: Long-distance Kemalism, State Politics, and the Turkish Diaspora.

"Musical Ethics and Islam is easy on the mind's eye and the ear, full of insight, and a genuine pleasure to read. ªenay well understands her instrument, the crafting of its sounds and the complex demands of her teacher's 'jealous gift'. It charts a new and distinct route through the cultural complexities of Islamic revival in Turkey and beyond; her conclusions will be of real interest to anthropologists of music and of Islam alike."—Martin Stokes, coeditor of Islam and Popular Culture"Musical Ethics and Islam is a ground-breaking ethnography of the interplay of aesthetic experience and social ideology, art and life. Banu Senay expertly interleaves personal experiences of 'sweet servitude' to a ney master with luminous accounts of the ethical, affective, and political aspects of music in post-Kemalist Turkey and the ney revival of recent years."—Michael Jackson, author of The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One. A Biography of the NeyChapter Two. Breath and ReedChapter Three. Mode and MoodChapter Four. Improvisation and JourneyChapter Five. Master Speakers, Master ListenersChapter Six. Music and Ethical ModificationChapter Seven. Musical IslamConclusionNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndexBack cover

Banu Senay is a lecturer in the department of anthropology at Macquarie University, Australia. She is the author of Beyond Turkey's Borders: Long-distance Kemalism, State Politics, and the Turkish Diaspora.

"Musical Ethics and Islam is easy on the mind's eye and the ear, full of insight, and a genuine pleasure to read. ªenay well understands her instrument, the crafting of its sounds and the complex demands of her teacher's 'jealous gift'. It charts a new and distinct route through the cultural complexities of Islamic revival in Turkey and beyond; her conclusions will be of real interest to anthropologists of music and of Islam alike."—Martin Stokes, coeditor of Islam and Popular Culture"Musical Ethics and Islam is a ground-breaking ethnography of the interplay of aesthetic experience and social ideology, art and life. Banu Senay expertly interleaves personal experiences of 'sweet servitude' to a ney master with luminous accounts of the ethical, affective, and political aspects of music in post-Kemalist Turkey and the ney revival of recent years."—Michael Jackson, author of The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One. A Biography of the NeyChapter Two. Breath and ReedChapter Three. Mode and MoodChapter Four. Improvisation and JourneyChapter Five. Master Speakers, Master ListenersChapter Six. Music and Ethical ModificationChapter Seven. Musical IslamConclusionNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndexBack cover