Conservative progressivism : Hasan Ferid Alnar and symbolic power in the Turkish music revolution
Journal: Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library)
Year: 2017

This study examines the reciprocity of the musical relationship between the Turkish and Austrian nation-states during the first half of the twentieth century through analysis of interactions between Turkish Five composer Hasan Ferid Alnar and his Austrian teacher Joseph Marx. Through the lens of Pierre Bourdieu’s Practice Theory and its concepts of habitus, fields of cultural production, and symbolic capital, I argue that the force driving this relationship was the strategic acquisition of symbo