ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Sufi music, especially in regarding Mercan Dede, one of the most prominent representatives of Sufi music as a form of world music. It analyzes how the global discourse of Sufi music as world music and is indigenized within the local. The chapter describes the discursive topography of Sufi music as world music through the processes of compilation, dislocation, and appropriation of global and local discourses within the local itself. It explores Turkey's various traditional music genres in detail as they are incorporated into the global discourses of world music, involved the political implications of placing the concept of a global world music discourse at the center. The chapter suggests that the inclusion of cosmology into discourses of spirituality supports a wider distinction between spirituality and religiosity. The incorporation of spiritual philosophy and sacred music in world music necessitates the thematic adaptation and transformation of local and "authentic" musical forms to appeal to a non-local audience's taste.
