ABSTRACT
During the 2000s, the number of academic works on popular culture, and specifically on arabesk, further increased while their general theoretical frameworks changed. As a synthesis between pre-existing styles, arabesk developed, as with other popular styles, in the culture of gazinos, which was disseminated more widely by the increasingly available technologies of mass culture. In the 1980s the government's cultural policy, based on the recognition of Ottoman history and culture as the national heritage and the true cultural tradition, targeted the RPP's modernization project for its elitism and statism. This policy also glorified the Ottoman past and the music associated with it, Turkish art music. Growing consumer demand and supply increased the need to control and organize the music industry; and thus new regulations were introduced during 1980s. New musical instruments and recording technologies had a major impact on the capacity, speed, and quality of music production.
