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Maureen Jackson
Independent Scholar
Occupation
Researcher
Contact

Seattle WA 98115
United States
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Ethnomusicology
19th-21st Centuries
Mediterranean Studies
Turkish Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Mediterranean Countries
Ottoman Empire
Turkey
Specialties
Minority Middle Eastern Histories
Ottoman And Turkish Social History
Middle Eastern Musical Cultures
Languages
Turkish (advanced)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Russian (intermediate)
Ladino (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2008 | Comparative Literature | University of Washington
Abstracts
The Girl in the Tree: Gender in Turkish Jewish Religious Music The Silent Informant: Discordant Narratives of Public History in Turkey The Music Marketplace of a Mediterranean Port The Social Economy of Music-making in an Empire at War: The Case of Smyrna/Izmir Ottoman Brass Bands: the Militarization of a Global Amateur Phenomenon