Overview In terms of film production, Turkey shared the same fate with many of the national cinemas of the 20th ...

Popular music is to a large extent produced by the consumer generation, or even if not later came on to ...

As in most societies we come across Turkish folk music dealing with daily life and Turkish classical music, the music ...

In the framework of music, the forms of music that accompanied or assisted such Islamic obligations as circumcision, fasting and ...

Western influence had already begun to be felt in Ottoman music towards the middle of the 19th century. These increased ...

This work, the broadest Dictionary of Turkish music thus far created, is the result of a multi-year project  by an ...

Turkish musical folk instruments can be classified as follows: String Instruments a) Played with a plectrum b) Played with fingers ...

The Turkish music industry includes a number of fields, ranging from record companies to radio stations and community and state ...

The tradition of folklore—folktales, jokes, legends, and the like—in the Turkish language is very rich. Perhaps the most popular figure ...

An Ottoman garden party, with poet, guest, and winebearer; from the 16th-century Dîvân-ı Bâkî Ottoman Divan poetry was a highly ritualized and symbolic art form. ...