Resumen de The Musical Role of Turkish Women in Perspectives from the Mediterranean Music Scene
As it is the case with the cultures from all over the world, music and dance are directly related to gender roles in Mediterranean cultures. Although they have been living into a geographical area on which a patriarchal social system is set, there have been creative and adorable important women musicians, composers, performers and dancers in this part of the world as well. Women have some similarities in terms of the social roles and behaviors in Mediterranean region, where the musical forms are not homogeneous. Historical written and visual sources are the evidents for this situation.
In the manuscript called Kitab al Agani, which is one of the written sources in the Islamic world in the east part of the Mediterranean, master is the performer, protector and transmitter of the repertory. Some of the masters who had lived at that time are reported to be women in these manuscripts The aim of this work is to discuss about the case of Turkey in the Mediterranean, by using historical and ethnomusicological methods on the place and musical life of women in music and dance culture in Turkish Makam Music from Ottoman period to today in Turkey where situated in the Mediterranean Music concept.
