Searching for Traditional Cultural Codes from the New Pop Arabesque Culture in Turkey Cover Image

Türkiye'deki Yeni Pop Arabesk Kültüründen Ortasinifin Geleneksel Kültürel Kodlarini Aramak
Searching for Traditional Cultural Codes from the New Pop Arabesque Culture in Turkey

Author(s): Hürriyet Konyar
Subject(s): Media studies, Music, Culture and social structure , Social development, Sociology of Culture, Social Norms / Social Control, Sociology of Politics, Globalization
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi

Summary/Abstract: During the process in which the global cultural occurs, as we try to follow the cultural change in turkey pop music form arises as an important phenomenon. The cultural flows are formed and reflected as pop music. Pop music phenomena in Turkey evolves in accordance with the changing social and cultural structure. Specially the new social structures which arise during the conduction of global policies joined the values of the center afterwards. The cultural identity of the middle class which emerged as a result of the new enrichment channels composes a case of "snobness". The new enrichment channels lead to aspirations of being modern and the aspiration of experiencing the new. They cause to identify their cultural styles as arabesque but it is observed that their consumption of music tends to your evolve from pure arabesque Music to pop arabesque. The new middle class which composes the new social basis of pop arabesque changes its cultural structure by time. In parallel with being coherent with rightist political systems, Their Music consumption gradually becomes insisting to be conservative but attempting to be modern. The enrichment of the new middle class is observed by its new colors. The emergence of pop arabesque music in the new era is furnished by the Music market determined by the global markets and the cultural industries formed by the global restructuring of media. The structure of pop arabesque music coherent with the conservative political systems keeps to preserve its characteristics in global culture climate conditions of the new era. While the new identities of global culture are reconstituted in pop arabesque culture with conservative codes at the same time, global/local oppositions take place of modern traditional duality in arabesque music.

  • Issue Year: 15/2009
  • Issue No: 59
  • Page Range: 49-76
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Turkish
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