Музикални образи от Истанбул в България като част от културни стратегии и индустрии
Music Images from Istanbul in Bulgaria as Part of Cultural Strategies and Industries

Summary/Abstract: The starting point of this research on the music images from Istanbul is films by Fatih Akin. The next basis for conclusions is tours of Bulgaria by Turkish musicians, the one that I think of as “export music”. My analyses are based on folk music, composers’ music, film music and the traditions of Mevlevi. They lay out my way towards studying music images of Istanbul and outlining cultural strategies and creative industries, in which the researched music is being drawn. I look for changes in choices and transformations in currently key images of export music from Istanbul as a reflection on the shift of paradigms over the recent two decades. There is also an attempt at “a snapshot by an outside researcher” within Istanbul with an accent on religious and secular music in different contexts, including the music connected with tourist industry. Multicultural Istanbul has various music faces. Their relative autonomy and plurality show a complex picture of crossing, correlations and coexistence. The culture of this city is a good example of hybridism as well as of a bridge between Asia and Europe, between what is traditional and contemporary, local and assimilated foreign, publicly promoted and everyday life.

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