ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction

Struggling with and Discussing a “Republic” through Popular Music

part I|52 pages

Histories

chapter 1|12 pages

Legacies, Continuities, and Breaks

Musical Entertainment in the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and the Republic of Turkey

chapter 3|10 pages

A Topography of Changing Tastes

The 12-Tone Equal-Tempered System and the Modernization of Turkish Music

chapter 4|10 pages

Music Reform in Turkey

On the Failures and Successes of Inventing National Songs

part II|58 pages

Politics

chapter 6|18 pages

Class Struggle in Popular Musics of Turkey

Changing Sounds from the Left

chapter 7|12 pages

The Glocality of Islamic Popular Music

The Turkish Case

chapter 8|12 pages

Politics of World Music

The Case of Sufi Music in Turkey

part III|46 pages

Ethnicities

chapter 10|18 pages

Kurdish Popular Music in Turkey

chapter 11|10 pages

Romanistanbul

City, Music, and a Transformation Story

part IV|42 pages

Genres

chapter 12|14 pages

Arabesk

Looking at the History of Popular Meanings and Feelings in Turkey

part |24 pages

Coda

chapter Afterword|12 pages

Days of Anatolian Pop

A Conversation with Cahit Berkay