The Arabesk Debate

Contents

• Part 1 Introduction: centres and peripheries
• cities and migrants
• discourses of sentiment
• fieldwork. Part 2 Discovering the folk and their music: Turkism
• Ziya Gokalp and the Turkish theory of culture
• the language reforms
• the construction of a national music, from Gokalp to the TRT
• reform in action - the institutions of urban halk music
• "dernek" and "dershane". Part 3 Rules systems, and techniques - reconstructing Turkish folk music: defining boundaries - "makam" and "ayak"
• individuality and invention
• notation
• the "baglama"
• regional style - "tavir" and "duzen"
• the "electrosaz", the "piyasa", and the polyphony debate - live and studio performance of halk music. Part 4 Arabesk: musicological critique - arabesk and Arab music
• sociological critique - the "gecekondu" problem and "dolmus culture"
• arabesk and "religious reaction" ("irtica")
• the musicians
• audiences. Part 5 Arabesk lyrics and narratives: predictive metaphors of sound - "yanmak" and "yakmak"
• narratives of music - the arabesk film
• the arabesk song text and the interior domain
• arabesk and protest - the social domain and the "gariban"
• fate, love, and self
• "hal" and urban space
• emotions and secrets. Part 6 The musical organization of Arabesk: inspiriation
• the recording studio
• "makam" in arabesk - "sevda gozlum"
• "fantezi" in arabesk - "dunya donuyor"
• "usul" and disorder. Part 7 Arabesk and "sema": "sema" - the language of "sema"
• the secret and the feast
• the dance
• "tasasvvuf" and the music of the spheres.