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Turkish and German-Turkish Pop Music

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The rediscovery of Anatolian pop sparked growing musicological interest. This volume compiles over 15 years of research on music in Turkey.
  • 31 August 2026
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Today, the neo-Anatolian pop music scene is thriving, and there is an abundance of reissues of Anatolian pop from the 1960s and 1970s. Sparked by U.S. hip-hop beat diggers in 2006, this trend has also led to a growing musicological interest in Anatolian pop and rock. This volume compiles over 15 years of research on Turkish music focusing on productions from Turkey and Germany. Key questions include the conditions that led to the emergence of Anatolian pop as a hybrid style and its relationship with other styles, such as arabesk, belly dance, folk, and hip-hop. The status of Turkish music in Germany is also examined, asking why this vast music production was ignored and excluded from the German music market and media for decades.
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Price: $60.00
Pages: 260
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Media Studies
Publication Date: 31 August 2026
Trim Size: 9.45 X 6.69 in
ISBN: 9783837678079
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, MUSIC / History & Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
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»This chapter owes a debt of thanks to Lund’s illuminating essay ›Anatolian Rock: Phenomena of Hybridization‹«.

»Cornelia and Holger Lund provide a critical reading of the history of Turkish pop music’s reception in Germany, […] the authors point out how their subject is a blind spot in (ethno)musicological research.«

»[The authors] criticize numerous instances of racism that fueled social and cultural divisions […]. Against this backdrop, the authors not only trace the commercial success of Turkish pop music in and from Germany, which has been largely ignored by the ›German dominant society‹, but also place this music in the context of past and current political debates.«

Cornelia Lund is a research fellow at Hochschule für Künste Bremen. She is an art, film and media scholar and curator and has worked in research and teaching, mainly on audiovisual artistic practices, documentary film and practices, design theory, and de- and postcolonial theories. She has curated and collaborated on numerous screenings and exhibitions and is co-director of the independent platform fluctuating images (Berlin) as well as of Seismographic Records.

Holger Lund is a full professor of media design, applied art, and design studies at Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Ravensburg. He works as a researcher on art, design, and music as well as a curator, author, producer and DJ (live and on radio). He runs the record label Global Pop First Wave and is co-director of the independent platform fluctuating images (Berlin) as well as of Seismographic Records.