Ali C. Gedik (editor) - Made in Turkey: Studies in Popular Music

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 back ground of popular music in Turkey, followed by essays that are organized into thematic sections: Histories, Politics, Ethnicities, and Genres.

Ali C. Gedik is Associate Professor of Musicology at Dokuz Eyll University. He is theco-founder and sciences editor of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, the presidentof the Society of Interdisciplinary Musicology, the secretary of the IASPM-Turkey branch,and the editor of the book Bilim zerine Marksist Tartmalar: Marksizm ve ki Kltr(2015).

Routledge Global Popular Music Series

Series Editors: Franco Fabbri, University of Huddersfield, UKand Goffredo Plastino, Newcastle University, UK

The Routledge Global Popular Music Series provides popular music scholars, teachers,students, and musicologists with a well-informed and up-to-date introduction to differentworld popular music scenes. The series of volumes can be used for academic teaching inpopular music studies, or as a collection of reference works. Written by those living andworking in the countries about which they write, this series is devoted to popular musiclargely unknown to Anglo-American readers.

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Made in Hungary: Studies in Popular Music
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Made in France: Studies in Popular Music
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Made in the Low Countries: Studies in Popular Music
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Made in Turkey: Studies in Popular Music
Edited by Ali C. Gedik

Studies in Popular Music

Edited by
Ali C. Gedik

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Gedik, Ali C., editor.
Title: Made in Turkey: studies in popular music/edited by Ali C. Gedik.
Description: New York; London: Routledge, 2017. | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017027849 | ISBN 9781138789289 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Popular musicTurkeyHistory and criticism.
Classification: LCC ML3502.T9 M34 2017 | DDC 781.6309561dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017027849

ISBN: 978-1-138-78928-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-76499-3 (ebk)

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Popular music studies have progressed from the initial focus on methodologies to exploring a variety of genres, scenes, works, and performers. British and North-American music have been privileged and studied first, not only for their geographic and generational proximity to scholars, but also for their tremendous impact. Everything else has been often relegated to the dubious world music category, with a folk (or roots, or authentic) label attached.

However, world popular music is no less popular than rock n roll, R&B, disco, rap, singer-songwriters, punk, grunge, brit-pop, or nu-gaze. It is no less full of history and passion, no less danceable, socially relevant, and commercialized. Argentinian tango, Brazilian bossa nova, Mexican reggaeton, Cuban son and timba, Spanish and Latin American cantautores, French auteurs-compositeurs-interprtes, Italian cantautori and electronic dance music, J-pop, German cosmic music and Schlager, Neapolitan Song, Greek entechno, Algerian ra, Ghanaian highlife, Portuguese fado, Nigerian jj, Egyptian and Lebanese Arabic pop, Israeli mizrahit, Indian filmi are just a few examples of locally and transnationally successful genres that, with millions of records sold, are an immensely precious key to understand different cultures, societies and economies.

More than in the past there is now a widespread awareness of the other popular music: however, we still lack access to the original sources, or to texts to rely on. The Routledge Global Popular Music Series has been devised to offer to scholars, teachers, students and general readers worldwide a direct access to scenes, works and performers that have been mostly not much or at all considered in the current literature, and at the same time to provide a better understanding of the different approaches in the field of non-Anglophone scholarship. Uncovering the wealth of studies flourishing in so many countries, inaccessible to those who do not speak the local language, is by now no less urgent than considering the music itself.

The Series website (www.globalpopularmusic.net) includes hundreds of audiovisual examples which complement the volumes. The interaction with the website is intended to give a well-informed introduction to the worlds popular music from entirely new perspectives, and at the same time to provide updated resources for the academic teaching.