"Musical Ethics and Islam is easy on the mind's eye and the ear, full of insight, and a genuine pleasure to read. Senay well understands her instrument, the crafting of its sounds and the complex demands of her teacher's 'jealous gift.' It charts a new and distinct route through the cultural complexities of Islamic revival in Turkey and beyond; her conclusions will be of real interest to anthropologists of music and of Islam alike."--Martin Stokes, coeditor of Islam and Popular Culture
"Musical Ethics and Islam is a ground-breaking ethnography of the interplay of aesthetic experience and social ideology, art and life. Banu Senay expertly interleaves personal experiences of sweet servitude' to a ney master with luminous accounts of the ethical, affective, and political aspects of music in post-Kemalist Turkey and the ney revival of recent years."--Michael Jackson, author of The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life