Music and Politics

Garratt, James

doi:10.1017/9781139505963

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“…Specifically, there is a profound relationship between political developments and musical transformations. Various genres, from jazz to blues, rock to metal, have been evaluated together with the political and social relations of the period in which they emerged or developed in several seminal studies (Cary, 1990;Garratt, 2019;Horne, 2019;Monson, 2009;Stewart, 2005;Street, 2003Street, , 2012. As these studies show, musical forms have direct effects on the strengthening and enlargement of the political framework, especially in identity issues, rebellion cases, emerging silent resistance, or making hidden power relations visible.…”

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Heavy metal in Turkey: Tracking the tensions of democratization in the 1990s

Yıldırım

2023

Sociology Compass

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Music, as a form of public discourse, invariably becomes a social science field that is considered more in the postmodern era when the boundaries are blurred. This study examines the political and cultural links between the emergence of the heavy metal genre and Turkish democracy. There are correlations between the prevalence of heavy metal in Turkey and the country's social and political transition in the 1990s and the search for a new path. The main argument here is that, among the country's tense democratization efforts and social problems, the heavy metal genre also indirectly carries the distinct traces of a different political search for the youth of the 1990s, although not directly. Democratic politics is a process established by daily life with the direct influence of societal interactions, and Turkish politics, and cultural life, in this case, heavy metal, include important notions in this remarkable manner. The main point symbolized by metal music in Turkey was its lyrical and artistic ability to express different points of view loudly enough against the uniform religious and nationalist culture that could be offensive, while other mainstream ranges such as pop and arabesque music didn't mind this issue.

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