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The Republic of Love - Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music (Hardcover, New)
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The Republic of Love - Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music (Hardcover, New)
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
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At the heart of "The Republic of Love" are the voices of three
musicians - queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator
Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu - who collectively have
dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their fame
and ubiquity have made them national icons - but, Martin Stokes
here contends, they do not represent the official version of
Turkish identity propagated by anthems or flags; instead, they
evoke a much more intimate and ambivalent conception of
Turkishness. Using these three singers as a lens, Stokes examines
Turkey's repressive politics and civil violence as well as its
uncommonly vibrant public life, in which music, art, literature,
sports, and journalism have flourished. However, Stokes's primary
concern is how the music and careers of Muren, Gencebay, and Aksu
can be understood in light of theories of cultural intimacy. In
particular, he considers their contributions to the development of
a Turkish concept of love, analyzing the ways these singers explore
the private matters of intimacy, affection, and sentiment on the
public stage.
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