Ali C. Gedik is Associate Professor of Musicology at Dokuz Eylül University. He is the co-founder and sciences editor of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, the president of the Society of Interdisciplinary Musicology, the secretary of the IASPM-Turkey branch, and the editor of the book Bilim Üzerine Marksist Tartışmalar: Marksizm ve İki Kültür (2015).

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• List of IllustrationsSeries ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction: Struggling with and Discussing a "Republic" through Popular Music Ali C. Gedik Part I: Histories 1 Legacies, Continuities, and Breaks: Musical Entertainment in the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and the Republic of Turkey Volkan Aytar 2 Entertainment Spaces, Genres, and Repertoires in Ottoman Musical Life Ş. Şehvar Beşiroğlu and Gonca Girgin 3 A Topography of Changing Tastes: The 12-Tone Equal-Tempered System and the Modernization of Turkish Music Ali Ergur4 Music Reform in Turkey: On the Failures and Successes of Inventing National Songs Özgür BalkılıçPart II: Politics 5 The Golden Microphone as a Moment of Hegemony Levent Ergun 6 Class Struggle in Popular Musics of Turkey: Changing Sounds from the Left Ali C. Gedik7 The Glocality of Islamic Popular Music: The Turkish Case Ayhan Erol8 Politics of World Music: The Case of Sufi Music in Turkey Koray Değirmenci Part III: Ethnicities 9 Ethnic Spaces and Multiculturalism Debates on Popular Music of Turkey Burcu Yıldız10 Kurdish Popular Music in Turkey Ozan Aksoy 11 Romanistanbul: City, Music, and a Transformation StoryÖzgür AkgülPart IV: Genres12 Arabesk: Looking at the History of Popular Meanings and Feelings in TurkeyBetül Yarar13 The Rise of a Folk Instrument in Turkish Popular Music: The Mey Songül Karahasanoğlu14 Global Connectivity and the Izmir Extreme-Metal SceneAykut ÇerezcioğluCoda15 Turkish Popular Music in Global PerspectiveMartin StokesAfterword - Days of Anatolian Pop: A Conversation with Cahit Berkay Tayfun BilginA Selected Bibliography on Turkish Popular MusicNotes on ContributorsIndex

Ali C. Gedik is Associate Professor of Musicology at Dokuz Eylül University. He is the co-founder and sciences editor of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, the president of the Society of Interdisciplinary Musicology, the secretary of the IASPM-Turkey branch, and the editor of the book Bilim Üzerine Marksist Tartışmalar: Marksizm ve İki Kültür (2015).

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• List of IllustrationsSeries ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction: Struggling with and Discussing a "Republic" through Popular Music Ali C. Gedik Part I: Histories 1 Legacies, Continuities, and Breaks: Musical Entertainment in the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and the Republic of Turkey Volkan Aytar 2 Entertainment Spaces, Genres, and Repertoires in Ottoman Musical Life Ş. Şehvar Beşiroğlu and Gonca Girgin 3 A Topography of Changing Tastes: The 12-Tone Equal-Tempered System and the Modernization of Turkish Music Ali Ergur4 Music Reform in Turkey: On the Failures and Successes of Inventing National Songs Özgür BalkılıçPart II: Politics 5 The Golden Microphone as a Moment of Hegemony Levent Ergun 6 Class Struggle in Popular Musics of Turkey: Changing Sounds from the Left Ali C. Gedik7 The Glocality of Islamic Popular Music: The Turkish Case Ayhan Erol8 Politics of World Music: The Case of Sufi Music in Turkey Koray Değirmenci Part III: Ethnicities 9 Ethnic Spaces and Multiculturalism Debates on Popular Music of Turkey Burcu Yıldız10 Kurdish Popular Music in Turkey Ozan Aksoy 11 Romanistanbul: City, Music, and a Transformation StoryÖzgür AkgülPart IV: Genres12 Arabesk: Looking at the History of Popular Meanings and Feelings in TurkeyBetül Yarar13 The Rise of a Folk Instrument in Turkish Popular Music: The Mey Songül Karahasanoğlu14 Global Connectivity and the Izmir Extreme-Metal SceneAykut ÇerezcioğluCoda15 Turkish Popular Music in Global PerspectiveMartin StokesAfterword - Days of Anatolian Pop: A Conversation with Cahit Berkay Tayfun BilginA Selected Bibliography on Turkish Popular MusicNotes on ContributorsIndex

Ali C. Gedik is Associate Professor of Musicology at Dokuz Eylül University. He is the co-founder and sciences editor of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, the president of the Society of Interdisciplinary Musicology, the secretary of the IASPM-Turkey branch, and the editor of the book Bilim Üzerine Marksist Tartışmalar: Marksizm ve İki Kültür (2015).

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• List of IllustrationsSeries ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction: Struggling with and Discussing a "Republic" through Popular Music Ali C. Gedik Part I: Histories 1 Legacies, Continuities, and Breaks: Musical Entertainment in the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires and the Republic of Turkey Volkan Aytar 2 Entertainment Spaces, Genres, and Repertoires in Ottoman Musical Life Ş. Şehvar Beşiroğlu and Gonca Girgin 3 A Topography of Changing Tastes: The 12-Tone Equal-Tempered System and the Modernization of Turkish Music Ali Ergur4 Music Reform in Turkey: On the Failures and Successes of Inventing National Songs Özgür BalkılıçPart II: Politics 5 The Golden Microphone as a Moment of Hegemony Levent Ergun 6 Class Struggle in Popular Musics of Turkey: Changing Sounds from the Left Ali C. Gedik7 The Glocality of Islamic Popular Music: The Turkish Case Ayhan Erol8 Politics of World Music: The Case of Sufi Music in Turkey Koray Değirmenci Part III: Ethnicities 9 Ethnic Spaces and Multiculturalism Debates on Popular Music of Turkey Burcu Yıldız10 Kurdish Popular Music in Turkey Ozan Aksoy 11 Romanistanbul: City, Music, and a Transformation StoryÖzgür AkgülPart IV: Genres12 Arabesk: Looking at the History of Popular Meanings and Feelings in TurkeyBetül Yarar13 The Rise of a Folk Instrument in Turkish Popular Music: The Mey Songül Karahasanoğlu14 Global Connectivity and the Izmir Extreme-Metal SceneAykut ÇerezcioğluCoda15 Turkish Popular Music in Global PerspectiveMartin StokesAfterword - Days of Anatolian Pop: A Conversation with Cahit Berkay Tayfun BilginA Selected Bibliography on Turkish Popular MusicNotes on ContributorsIndex