Erol G. M. Köymen

Erol Köymen (ekoymen@fsu.edu) is an ethnographer of music and sound interested in how listening mediates political transformations in modern Turkey and Turkish-German diaspora. His theoretical and analytical interests include religion/secularity, inter-imperiality, class, urban atmospheres, and Peircean semiotics. His current book project, Listening for Secular Bodies, examines how listening to Western classical music shapes secular embodiment and resistance in twenty-first century Istanbul. Recent publications have appeared in Ethnomusicology, Journal of Middle East Studies, and World of Music. Köymen is assistant professor of musicology at Florida State University. Prior appointments include the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and the University of Chicago.