INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780857420442 |
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Call number |
394.26561 CE LE |
TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Celebration, entertainment and theatre in the Ottoman world |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
edited by Suraiya Faroqhi, Arzu Ozturkmen |
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication |
London : |
Publisher |
Seagull Books, |
Date |
c2014. |
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
xiv, 514 p. : |
Other Details |
ill. ; |
Size |
23 cm. |
SERIES STATEMENT |
Series statement |
Enactments |
CONTENTS |
Contents |
Performance in the Ottoman world: an introduction. Performance in the Ottoman world: thoughts on folklore and history / Arzu Öztürkmen -- Research on Ottoman festivities and performances / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Celebration and entertainment. Evaluating three imperial festivals: 1524, 1530 and 1539 / Zeynep Yelce -- From the Modena archives: a report on the 1582 circumcision festivities at the Ottoman Court / Nevin and Raniero Özkan-Speelman -- Entertaining the Sultan: Meclis, festive gatherings in the Ottoman Palace / Zeynep Tarim Ertuğ -- What about a bit of fun? Wine, crime and entertainment int he Sixteenth-Century Anatolia / Fikret Yilmaz -- Asserting military power in a world turned upside down: the Istanbul Festivals of 1582 and 1638 / Fariba Zarinebaf -- Festivals and their documentation: surnames covering the festivities of 1675 and 1724 / Efdal Sevincli -- When the Sultan planned a great feast, was everyone in a festive mood? Or, who worked on the preparations of Sultanic festivals and who paid for them? / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Amusements in the Ottoman Palace of the early Nineteenth Century: revelations from a newly analysed Ruzname / Mehmet Ali Beyhan -- Marking urban identity, dividing up urban time: festivities among the Greeks of Istanbul in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries / Méropi Anastassiadou -- A modern performance in late Ottoman times: birthday celebrations as imperial image-making / Fatmagül Demirel -- Ottoman theatre and theatricality. Language and sexuality in Ottoman shadow-puppet performances / Daryo Mizrahi -- Folktales adapted to Karagöz shadow plays -- Men acting as women: the Zenne in Nineteenth-century popular theatre / Ciğem Kilic -- The Ottoman stage: politicization and commercialization of theatres, 1876-1922 / Nalan Turna -- Musicals in Nineteenth-century Ottoman theatre: the story of Leblebici Horhor Ağa / Nur Gürani Arslan -- Musicological debates between Greeks and Turks in the Late Ottoman Empire: dialogue and the creation of the 'other' / Merih Erol -- Multiple ramifications: Azniv Hrachia's autobiography as a source for the history of the theatre and the world beyond / Hasmik Khalapyan -- Afife Jale on the stage: questioning female identity in theatre; late Ottoman and early Republican modernization processes / Fahriye Dincer -- European encounters. Summa Turcica: the image of the Turk in Eighteenth-century Viennese opera / Lale Babaoğlu Balkis -- Performance as politics of westernization in the late Ottoman world / Melis Sülos -- A German institution in the late Ottoman empire: music, theatre and festivities at the Teutonia Club / Seren Akyoldas -- The Ottoman Theatre in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago / Cafer Sarikaya. |
SUMMARY |
Summary |
Gathers twenty-four original essays exploring a broad range of historical performances in the Ottoman Empire. Offering a reappraisal of research on Ottoman festivities, celebrations, and entertainment, this volume also examines the European-style theater that flourished in Istanbul during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. |
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical Heading |
Festivals |
Form |
Turkey |
Geographic |
History |
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical Heading |
Theater |
Form |
Turkey |
Chronological |
Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 |
Geographic |
History |
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical Heading |
Festivals |
ADDED ENTRY |
Name |
Faroqhi, Suraiya, |
Role |
Edited by |
ADDED ENTRY |
Name |
Ozturkmen, Arzu, |
Role |
Edited by |
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