^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} Music, City and Culture: An Ethnographic Study of the Rebetiko Music Scene in Istanbul -

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 decades of relative silence and of the motivations and artistic attitudes of rebetiko musicians, as well as an exploration of the "types" of rebetiko listeners. What are some of their prominent socio-musical behaviors? 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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX