Turkey's coup and the call to prayer: Sounds of violence meet Islamic devotionals
- Written by Denise Gill, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Washington University in St Louis
The sounds of the recent military coup will long be remembered by people in Turkey.
Yet as Turks in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir and other urban centers strained to differentiate the sounds of explosive devices from the sonic booms of F-16s on July 15, 2016, they were most shocked by another sound, at once familiar and deeply startling: the Islamic call...
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