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.
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
Ş. Şehvar Beşiroğlu 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
Özgür Balkılıç
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 Değirmenci
Part III: Ethnicities
9 Ethnic Spaces and Multiculturalism Debates on Popular Music of Turkey
Burcu Yıldız
10 Kurdish Popular Music in Turkey
Ozan Aksoy
11 Romanistanbul: City, Music, and a Transformation Story
Özgür Akgül
Part IV: Genres
12 Arabesk: Looking at the History of Popular Meanings and Feelings in Turkey
Betül Yarar
13 The Rise of a Folk Instrument in Turkis
Biography
Ali C. Gedik is Associate Professor of Musicology at Dokuz Eylül 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 Üzerine Marksist Tartismalar: Marksizm ve Iki Kültür (2015).
