Rereading Turkey's recent history through the lens of rock music: how rock has lost its socio-political edge in neoliberal times.
In presenting the historical development of rock music in Turkey from the early 1960s to the present within a socio-political framework, this study provides (1) a rereading of Turkish politico-economic changes and (2) a correlative cultural critique of rock musicianship and songwriting in the neolib...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 114 - 131 |
|---|---|
| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan 2022
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=155284430&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 155284430 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01436597 TWQ jtl: Third World Quarterly issn: 01436597 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jan 2022 vid: 43 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 155284430 10.1080/01436597.2021.1994385 ppf: 114 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T db: hlh ui: 155284430 – @attributes: type: P db: hlh ui: 155284430 tig: atl: Rereading Turkey's recent history through the lens of rock music: how rock has lost its socio-political edge in neoliberal times. aug: au: Ongur, Hakan Övünç Develi, Tevfik Orkun affil: Political Science and International Relations, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey History, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla, Turkey su: Türkiye Cultural production Rock music Musical composition Neoliberalism Song lyrics Gezi Park Protests, Türkiye, 2013 sug: subj: Cultural production Türkiye Rock music Musical composition Neoliberalism Song lyrics Gezi Park Protests, Türkiye, 2013 keyword: cultural production history neoliberalism opposition rock music Turkish politics cultural production history neoliberalism opposition rock music Turkish politics ab: In presenting the historical development of rock music in Turkey from the early 1960s to the present within a socio-political framework, this study provides (1) a rereading of Turkish politico-economic changes and (2) a correlative cultural critique of rock musicianship and songwriting in the neoliberal age. Two related hypotheses are tested through a content analysis of 67 rock acts, 426 releases and 3452 songs from 1963 to 2019. First, it is argued that as Turkey moved from import substitution industrialisation between 1960 and 1980 to 1980s neoliberalism, the content of rock music lyrics changed from being overtly socio-political to having no relation to such matters or to adopting implicit and indirect language in mentioning them. Second, it is proposed that this lyrical unresponsiveness to social matters grew so powerfully as part of the neoliberal economic rationale that it put individuation, self-realisation and market demands ahead of other forms of social relations. So, today's rock artists are unequipped to respond through their lyrics to grand events, such as the Gezi Park protests of 2013, the failed coup attempt of 2016, or a two-year state of emergency, terrorism and femicide, in contrast to the rock music of the 1960s and 1970s. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|