I have a question about Turkish music...?

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Qu'est ce que tu pense?

No, not really. Young people in Turkey like listening to these songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjLo8wHl3Hs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLFdgtkShc8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJLUV4dbp4Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoJ34jPX3WM
You get the idea...mostly pop, a little twist of traditional.

Edit- You're welcome :)

Trotsky vs Kerensky- НекIо!

I agree with denyocan.

Arabesk music is certainly not the best representative of Turkish music, in fact, I would hardly call it Turkish music. Average Turk mostly listens to pop music, like the ones red candy provided you. If you are doing a research on Turkish music avoid putting Arabesk music at the center of it.

denyocan

Arabesk is just like the rap music of Turkey. It`s ghetto, crappy, and listened mainly by the people from lower education level, and it has nothing to do with the traditional Turkish music culture.

If I were you I would consider the Turkish folk music and the Turkish art music (or however it`s called in English) for the project. These are the real kind of Turkish music that have an history of thousands of years.

hanibal

Arabesk music is the reason of emigration from villages to big cities. Pop music is popular at now. But It's quality is not good. They use mostly Am , G,F,E . So all songs looks like each other. Before arabesk we were using one keyboard . With arabesk more instruments begin to use.
But arabesk has too much pain and same notes are playing with all orchestra.
I prefer blues for that.

Achaniel

It is not popular among young people. There are yet young people who listen to this style of music, however. It first appeared in 1960. The pioneers of this music were Ahmet Sezgin, Abdullah Yüce and Hafiz Burhan Sesiyilmaz. The two individual components of it are Turkish lyrics and Arabic dance music.

The musicians still sing it today are Ferdi Tayfur, Cengiz Kurtoğlu, Mustafa Keser, İsmail Türüt, Sinan Özen, Mine Koşan, Ebru Yaşar, Selami Şahin, Ömer Danış, Latif Doğan, Ankaralı Turgut, İzzet Yıldızhan, Songül Karlı and Hakan Altun.

degisen

If you want to understand Turkey's music, a must-do is to see
the "Sound of Istanbul" documentary.

It covers most of the music genres of Istanbul and their masters including Arabesk.

It's available on Amazon.

Kaankaan

Well I think the others gave you the best answers and best links to you. No comment. hope you find what you look for.

amy.

i will just give you a list of modern turkish artists..
Sertab erener, Tarkan, Mustafa Sandal, Kenan Dogulu, Sibel Tuzun.
thats all i can think of at the moment i will probably think of more and edit this..

Bix

I hate this type of music. However, it's very popular in Turkey. I doubt that the majority of the people using Y/A listen to that type of music.

I know the names of some singers: Ibrahim Tatlises, Orhan Gencebay (great musician but as said, I hate arabesk) and Ferdi Tayfur.

EDIT:

This is the documantary degisen is talking about:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459242/

Crossing the Bridge : The Sound of Istanbul

from the Turkish-German director Fatih Akin

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459242/

That's why I think that Orhan Gencebay is a good musician...

Leprechaun

Actually "arabesk" music is a research subject itself i believe.It has a culture and a history.

This type of music raised in 1980s. Mainly after huge amounts of people migrated Istanbul from all over Anatolia. They came and pressed between the big city and their villages' cultures. The theme of the music is always emotional. Telling about desperate loves, pain and depression. Because of these specifications, this kind of music banned by government for sometime (which i believe was very wrong)

Currently the strongest Representatives are Ibrahim Tatlıses, Müslüm Gürses,Orhan Gencebay we can say.

The music is very popular both among older people and youngsters. But the music evolved and today not only lower class people listen to this music anymore. People described as "elite" also listen. But.. they are mostly ashamed if people knew they fancy this music. That is why music produced hidden arabeskers. The most popular of them is Sezen Aksu. Also other popular music singers sing a couple of them in their albums, even rock groups. So yes we can say it is very popular among all type of people.

Add: One more detail. People mostly deny they like arabesk even if they do,because it's considered a lower class of music. As a music lover, i believe every kind of music have nice examples. Thinking with prejudice, you can never feel the real music. Of course we can't say it's the core of Turkish music,but can't avoid the fact that it has a great part in it either.

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