Made in Turkey: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of Turkish popular music. The volume consists of essays by leading scholars of Turkish music, and covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Turkey. Each essay provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Turkish popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music in Turkey, followed by essays that are organized into thematic sections: Histories, Politics, Ethnicities, and Genres.
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13 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white; 13 Halftones, black and white
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Höhe: 246 mm
Breite: 174 mm
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978-1-138-78928-9 (9781138789289)
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Ali C. Gedik is Associate Professor of Musicology at Dokuz Eyluel University. He is the co-founder and sciences editor of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, the president of the Society of Interdisciplinary Musicology, the secretary of the IASPM-Turkey branch, and the editor of the book Bilim UEzerine Marksist Tartismalar: Marksizm ve Iki Kueltuer (2015).
List of Illustrations
Series Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Struggling with and Discussing a "Republic" through Popular Music
Ali C. Gedik
Part I: Histories
1 Legacies, Continuities, and Breaks: Musical Entertainment in the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and the Republic of Turkey
Volkan Aytar
2 Entertainment Spaces, Genres, and Repertoires in Ottoman Musical Life
S. Sehvar Besiroglu and Gonca Girgin
3 A Topography of Changing Tastes: The 12-Tone Equal-Tempered System and the Modernization of Turkish Music
Ali Ergur
4 Music Reform in Turkey: On the Failures and Successes of Inventing National Songs
OEzguer Balkilic
Part II: Politics
5 The Golden Microphone as a Moment of Hegemony
Levent Ergun
6 Class Struggle in Popular Musics of Turkey: Changing Sounds from the Left
Ali C. Gedik
7 The Glocality of Islamic Popular Music: The Turkish Case
Ayhan Erol
8 Politics of World Music: The Case of Sufi Music in Turkey
Koray Degirmenci
Part III: Ethnicities
9 Ethnic Spaces and Multiculturalism Debates on Popular Music of Turkey
Burcu Yildiz
10 Kurdish Popular Music in Turkey
Ozan Aksoy
11 Romanistanbul: City, Music, and a Transformation Story
OEzguer Akguel
Part IV: Genres
12 Arabesk: Looking at the History of Popular Meanings and Feelings in Turkey
Betuel Yarar
13 The Rise of a Folk Instrument in Turkish Popular Music: The Mey
Songuel Karahasanoglu
14 Global Connectivity and the Izmir Extreme-Metal Scene
Aykut Cerezcioglu
Coda
15 Turkish Popular Music in Global Perspective
Martin Stokes
Afterword - Days of Anatolian Pop: A Conversation with Cahit Berkay
Tayfun Bilgin
A Selected Bibliography on Turkish Popular Music
Notes on Contributors
Index
