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Turkish and German-Turkish Pop Music
Anatolian Pop and Rock, Arabesk, Belly Dance, Hip-Hop. Texts 2011 to 2025, Revised and Enlarged- Editors:
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- Series:
- Edition Medienwissenschaft, Volume 137
- Publisher:
- 2026
Summary
Today, the neo-Anatolian pop music scene is thriving, and there is an abundance of reissues of Anatolian pop from the 1960s and 1970s. Sparked by U.S. hip-hop beat diggers in 2006, this trend has also led to a growing musicological interest in Anatolian pop and rock. This volume compiles over 15 years of research on Turkish music focusing on productions from Turkey and Germany. Key questions include the conditions that led to the emergence of Anatolian pop as a hybrid style and its relationship with other styles, such as arabesk, belly dance, folk, and hip-hop. The status of Turkish music in Germany is also examined, asking why this vast music production was ignored and excluded from the German music market and media for decades.
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Bibliographic data
- Edition
- 1/2026
- Copyright Year
- 2026
- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-8376-7807-9
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-8394-1190-2
- Publisher
- transcript, Bielefeld
- Series
- Edition Medienwissenschaft
- Volume
- 137
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 263
- Product Type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
ChapterPages
- Music for Revolution. Kemalist Music Politics Played over the Radio in TurkeyPages 17 - 33Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- The Aesthetics of Imperfection and Hybridization: What Is so Interesting about Turkish Funk and Pop Music of the 1960s and 1970s?Pages 35 - 41Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Style and Society—Istanbul’s Music Scene in the 1960s and 1970s: Musical Hybridism, the Gazino and Social TolerancePages 57 - 77Authors: |Download chapter (PDF)
- Turkish Pop Music Images. The Music and Its Communication Design: Record Covers, Photos & Posters & Ads in Magazines, Cinema Posters, Music Performances in Films & Clips from the 1960s to the Early 1980sPages 79 - 87Authors: | |Download chapter (PDF)
- Anatolian Pop Music: ‘Rurban’ Images of a PeriodPages 89 - 113Authors: | | |Download chapter (PDF)
- Decolonizing Pop Music: Focusing on Turkish and Brazilian Pop Music DevelopmentsPages 117 - 136Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- Decolonizing Pop Music Historiography. Anatolian Pop Studies as an ExamplePages 139 - 160Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- The Hidden History of Turkish Independent Labels in Germany from the 1960s to the 1980sPages 163 - 189Authors: |Download chapter (PDF)
- A History of Flops and a New Turn: The Turkish-German Music InterplayPages 191 - 230Authors: |Download chapter (PDF)
- Drawing Boundaries—On Turkish Pop Music in Germany from the 1960s to the Present DayPages 233 - 258Authors: |Download chapter (PDF)





