1st Edition

Made in Turkey Studies in Popular Music

Edited By Ali C. Gedik Copyright 2018
    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    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 Tartışmalar: Marksizm ve İki Kültür (2015).