We offer hearty congratulations to BFE member Liselotte Sels, whose new mongraph on Turkish folk music has just been published! The book, entitled 'Turkish Folk Music between Ghent and Turkey: Context, Performance, Function', explores musical, contextual and functional aspects of Turkish folk music in contemporary Turkey and the Turkish diaspora in the Belgian city of Ghent. Liselotte's work makes new contributions to scholarship in this area by including the transcription and analysis of performance styles, the evaluation of Turkish Radio and Television discourses and practices, and the exploration of understudied research contexts of Ghent and Emirdağ.

The book is now available to order online from the Equinox Publishing website, and there is a discount of 25% when using the code 'MUSIC' at checkout.