Modernization/Westernization as depicted in the movies

This Jewel was found by Shokat.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oAV2Wv-Mf4&feature=player_embedded

Passion fo Percussion

Darbuka....

The sound has never met your ears....

But the rhythm of the darbuka has been radiating in Middle Eastern air since the beginning. Also called the Goblet Drum, it was, in ancient times constructed with whatever was at hand: clay, metal or wood but now in our digital age it could be aluminum, fiberglass or copper.

Its responsive drumhead and resonance produces a distinctively crisp sound, which formed a symbiosis with a key dance form: bellydancing.

Have a listen, but don't blame us if your midsection begins to gyrate......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WzQm1HNvmI

Turkish/Armenian/Greek Music

Is there really any music that can be considered 'Ottoman'?

That empire was a disparate collection of satellites with Istanbul at its centre. Perhaps this song, a fusion of Turkish/Armenian/Greek sounds. is what it might have been like.

Played by itinerant musicians that form the Turkish/Armenian/Greek diaspora in Americ, it's certainly worth a listen.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dwTY-EYQSU