A Mediating Musical Genre Shaped in the Relationship between Turkish Folk Music and Media: Bağlama Etudes

Serdar Erkan

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A Mediating Musical Genre Shaped in the Relationship between Turkish Folk Music and Media: Bağlama Etudes

Authors:

Serdar Erkan

Publisher:

Hacettepe University

Main Topics:

Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı (Diğer)

Journal:

Türkbilig Vol.2024 Issue 47, pp.287-299

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

6/2024

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2001321431

pISSN:

1302-6011

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Abstract:

 The social performance spaces of Turkish folk music have expanded parallel to the diversification of media tools and the dissemination of cultural content. Decontextualized and separated from local cultural sites, which are the primary oral culture media, through printed scores, sound recordings, radio broadcasts, recordings, television broadcasts and internet media platforms, music has been deconstructed and reassembled by communities in new mediation processes and has acquired new definitions, limitations, forms, genres, meanings and new contexts. Today, it is not enough to define folk music as a unique means of expression by considering it with classical definitions of culture, genre, meaning, community and context based on relatively fixed social structures and oral culture only. Therefore, concepts and theories that emerge with folk music enabling us to discuss these novel performances sociologically gain importance. The subject of this study is to examine the periodical appearances of the etudes used in the education of the bağlama, one of the basic instruments of Turkish folk music, shaped through the communication channels provided by the media forms used from oral communication to the internet age. In other words, this study is interested in how bağlama instrument education is shaped according to periodically changing media tools and what teachers convey to their students, which we will call etudes within the limits of this study.

 The social performance spaces of Turkish folk music have expanded parallel to the diversification of media tools and the dissemination of cultural content. Decontextualized and separated from local cultural sites, which are the primary oral culture media, through printed scores, sound recordings, radio broadcasts, recordings, television broadcasts and internet media platforms, music has been deconstructed and reassembled by communities in new mediation processes and has acquired new definitions, limitations, forms, genres, meanings and new contexts. Today, it is not enough to define folk music as a unique means of expression by considering it with classical definitions of culture, genre, meaning, community and context based on relatively fixed social structures and oral culture only. Therefore, concepts and theories that emerge with folk music enabling us to discuss these novel performances sociologically gain importance. The subject of this study is to examine the periodical appearances of the etudes used in the education of the bağlama, one of the basic instruments of Turkish folk music, shaped through the communication channels provided by the media forms used from oral communication to the internet age. In other words, this study is interested in how bağlama instrument education is shaped according to periodically changing media tools and what teachers convey to their students, which we will call etudes within the limits of this study.

 The social performance spaces of Turkish folk music have expanded parallel to the diversification of media tools and the dissemination of cultural content. Decontextualized and separated from local cultural sites, which are the primary oral culture media, through printed scores, sound recordings, radio broadcasts, recordings, television broadcasts and internet media platforms, music has been deconstructed and reassembled by communities in new mediation processes and has acquired new definitions, limitations, forms, genres, meanings and new contexts. Today, it is not enough to define folk music as a unique means of expression by considering it with classical definitions of culture, genre, meaning, community and context based on relatively fixed social structures and oral culture only. Therefore, concepts and theories that emerge with folk music enabling us to discuss these novel performances sociologically gain importance. The subject of this study is to examine the periodical appearances of the etudes used in the education of the bağlama, one of the basic instruments of Turkish folk music, shaped through the communication channels provided by the media forms used from oral communication to the internet age. In other words, this study is interested in how bağlama instrument education is shaped according to periodically changing media tools and what teachers convey to their students, which we will call etudes within the limits of this study.

 Türk halk müziğinin toplumsal icra alanları, medya araçlarının çeşitlenmesi ve kültürel içeriğin yaygınlaştırılmasıyla paralel bir şekilde genişlemiştir. Birincil sözlü kültür ortamı olan yerel kültür sahalarından basılı nota, ses kaydı; radyo yayınları, plak-kaset kayıtları, televizyon yayınları ve internet medya platformları aracılığıyla bağlamsızlaştırılarak ayrılan müzik yeni dolayım mediation süreçlerinde topluluklar tarafından öğelerine ayrılmış, yeniden birleştirilmiş ve yeni tanımlara, sınırlamalara, biçimlere, türlere, anlamlara ve yeni bağlamlara kavuşmuştur. Halk müziğini görece sabit toplumsal yapılar ve yalnızca sözlü kültür üzerine kurgulanmış klasik kültür, tür, anlam, topluluk ve bağlam tanımları ile ele almak günümüzde onu özgün bir ifade aracı olarak tanımlamak için yeterli değildir. Dolayısıyla halk müziği ortak paydasında ortaya çıkan bu yeni icra pratiklerini toplum bilimsel olarak ele almamızı sağlayan kavram ve teoriler önem kazanmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın konusu, sözlü iletişimden internet çağına kadar kullanılan medya biçimlerinin sağladığı iletişim kanalları aracılığıyla şekillenen, Türk halk müziğinin temel çalgılarından bağlamanın eğitiminde kullanılan etütlerin dönemsel görünümlerini incelemektir. Diğer bir deyişle, bu çalışma, bağlama çalgısı eğitiminin dönemsel olarak değişen medya araçlarına göre nasıl şekil aldığı; öğretenlerin, öğrencilere ne aktardığıyla ilgilenmektedir ki genel anlamda bu aktarılan bilgiyi çalışmanın sınırları içinde etüt olarak adlandıracağız.

Article Details

A Mediating Musical Genre Shaped in the Relationship between Turkish Folk Music and Media: Bağlama Etudes

Authors:

Serdar Erkan

Publisher:

Hacettepe University

Main Topics:

Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı (Diğer)

Journal:

Türkbilig Vol.2024 Issue 47, pp.287-299

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

6/2024

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2001321431

pISSN:

1302-6011

Bağlama education

musical performance

music community

media

cultural institutionalizationBağlama eğitimi

müzikal icra

müzik topluluğu

medya

kültürel kurumsallaşma

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Article Details

Authors: Serdar Erkan

Publisher: Hacettepe University

Main Topics: Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı (Diğer)

Journal: Türkbilig Vol.2024 Issue 47, pp.287-299

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 6/2024

Document Language: Turkish

Document ID (Org No.): 2001321431

pISSN: 1302-6011

Issues

Authors:

Serdar Erkan

Publisher:

Hacettepe University

Main Topics:

Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı (Diğer)

Journal:

Türkbilig Vol.2024 Issue 47, pp.287-299

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

6/2024

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2001321431

pISSN:

1302-6011