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This paper addresses the paradoxes and challenges faced by tasavvuf musicians as they engage with the ‘field of tradition’ in Turkey. It shows the incoherent nature of this field and how the conservative cultural turn since the early 2000s contributes to its fragmentation. This period is particularly relevant, as it is considered a period of traditionalization, when society became more exposed to a new, traditionalized culture industry. Hence, the paper suggests that tasavvuf music, emically labeled as ‘tradition’, has been integrated into the period of traditionalization; yet, its practitioners show inconsistences and conflicting discourses in their relation with the traditionalization.
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