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Overview In terms of film production, Turkey shared the same fate with many of the national cinemas of the 20th century. Film production wasn't continuous until around the 1950s...

Popular music is to a large extent produced by the consumer generation, or even if not later came on to take on many of those characteristics, and takes its...

As in most societies we come across Turkish folk music dealing with daily life and Turkish classical music, the music of the courts. A folk song usually deals with...

In the framework of music, the forms of music that accompanied or assisted such Islamic obligations as circumcision, fasting and the call to prayer, and known as Mosque Music...

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

This work, the broadest Dictionary of Turkish music thus far created, is the result of a multi-year project  by an expert team , which was funded and made available...

Turkish musical folk instruments can be classified as follows: String Instruments a) Played with a plectrum b) Played with fingers Saz, Baglama, Tar Bow Instruments Kabak Kemane, Karadeniz Kemencesi Wind Instruments Zurna, Kaval, Çigirtma, Mey, Tulum, Sipsi, Çifte...

The Turkish music industry includes a number of fields, ranging from record companies to radio stations and community and state orchestras. Most of the major record companies are based in Istanbul's...

The tradition of folklore—folktales, jokes, legends, and the like—in the Turkish language is very rich. Perhaps the most popular figure in the tradition is the aforementioned Nasreddin (known as Nasreddin Hoca, or...

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. From the Persian poetry that largely inspired it, it...