The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey.

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 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.