Description
Book SynopsisThis monograph examines the relationship between music and memory as it relates to the Gallipoli Campaign (1915-6). Drawing upon a wide variety of sources in many languages, it explores the multiple ways in which music is employed to remember and to forget, to celebrate and to commemorate a victory (on the part of the Central Powers) and a defeat (on the part of the Allied forces) in the Dardanelles during the First World War (1914-8). Further, it argues that commemoration itself can be viewed as an instrument of war'. In particular, it investigates the complex positionality of individual actors during the centennial commemorations of the Gallipoli landings (24 April, 2015) where the Australians and the Turks most notably have employed music to reimagine the past, both nationalities invoking the Gallipoli spirit' (tr. Çanakkale ruhu') to advance a nationalist agenda and a resurgent militarism through the selective memorialization of an imperial past. The book interrogates through music
Table of ContentsPrelude: The Order of Mejidieh Chapter 1: A Soldier’s Lament Chapter 2: The Holy War Chapter 3: Old Gallipoli Chapter 4: Mehter in the Museum Chapter 5: Hybrid Turks Chapter 6: Sound Bites Chapter 7: Music as Memory Coda: The Gallipoli Spirit
