Politics and/of Popular Culture : Football and Arabesk Music in the Times of the New Right in Turkey

ISBN-13: 9783639134902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 200 str.

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Opis

It is generally acknowleged that the 1980s was a turning point in the history of modern Turkey. Marked by the rise of the New Right, it was also the period when popular cultural forms like football and arabesk were transformed. Although there has been an increasing sociological interest in the issue of social transformation in Turkey in the 1980s, most studies have been conducted from a perspective focusing on its economic and political aspects. Contrary to this large literature on Turkey, this book aims to analyse this important transformation period from an angle focusing on the issue of the relationship between politics (i.e. the New Right) and popular culture (i.e. football and arabesk music). With its theoretical framework based on the works of Gramsci and Foucault along with many other scholars, this book should help to shed some light on some of important theoretical and practical issues that concerns those who are working on the issue of politics of popular culture. It should also be specially useful to those who are interested in socio-historical analysis of sport/football and music/arabesk in Turkey.

O autorze

Studied Ph.D. in Sociology at Lancaster University. Currently
she is working as an Associated Professor at Faculty of
Communication, Gazi University, Turkey. Her areas of interest
are culture, popular culture and body politics in the context of
modernization in Turkey. She has various researches and
publications on these subjects.