In Which Direction is Music Heading? Cultural and Cognitive Studies in Turkey: Cultural and Cognitive Studies in Turkey

This book offers a range of trajectories of academic thought and musical practice in Turkey. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach, with chapters exploring the question posed by its title from the perspectives of neurology, psychology, historical musicology, ethnomusicology, social science, gender studies, acoustics, and linguistics. Some studies are experimental and scientific in nature, ranging from a friends focus on tonality, using EEG to investigate differences in the cognitive respon...