Music
What Did I Do To Be So Black and Blue
Jazz music has been fed to the unconscious as a hedonistic and elitist genre for decades, but this genre has been a major catalyst for social change throughout history. Let us witness this impact through listening to Louis Armstrong's rendition of "What did I do to be so black and blue?"
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Turkish Rap II
There was a music sector in Turkey even though it was not anything like the developed Western market, and the center of this scene initially was the Eastern Bank (Doğu Bank) in the Sirkeci-Eminönü districts, which then moved to Unkapanı Record Sellers Bazaar (İMÇ) in Fatih district in the seventies.
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The Word ‘Bakshi’ and Where It Takes Us
I was dragged on the trails of the word 'Bakshi' from one realm to the other and it took me on a journey through Shamans, Alevis and Anatolian bards.
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Reflections on A Golden Horn – Jazz and Turkish Music
Many years after the “discovery” of jazz by the Turkish public, American jazz musicians began to develop a fascination for Turkish music. However, only in rare cases this led to an effort to learn about the different Turkish traditions and their impact on European and American music, the fact after 1955 qualified ethnomusicological recordings began to be available.
...Turkey’s Eurovision Adventure
I was born around the mid 1970s and was a young boy during the heydays of the contest when there was only one channel to watch.
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Popular Music, Rock, and Being a Bard Singer
It is important to emphasize once again that the modern ‘aşık’ bard tradition in Turkey found footing in the 1970s.
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Handmade Turkish Cymbals Tradition – An Inside Perspective
Bringing the highly laborious and demanding art form of “Handmade Turkish cymbal-making” back, was the beginning of a success story that would make a tremendous impact all over the world.
...Being a Modern “Aşık” in Turkey
Bard singers are an example to the interesting sources of the modern tradition of popular music.
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Contemporary Female Âşıklar in Âşık Music Tradition of Turkey
In order to understand the position of female âşıklar in Turkish society we must look at what the âşık tradition consists of.
...The Journey of Westernisation of Turkish Music – The Anatolian Pop Perspective
Turkey’s interest in western music culture dates back to Ottoman era, when some of the Sultans had a huge interest in Western classical music.
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