Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music, (Hardcover)

9780226775050.

Pre-owed: Good condition.

Hard cover.

Language: English.

Pages: 240.

Sewn binding.

Cloth over boards.

240 p.

Contains: Illustrations.

Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology.

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.