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‘Indiestanbul’: counter-hegemonic music and third republicanism in Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2017

Tom Parkinson
Tom Parkinson*
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Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NZ, UK E-mail: t.parkinson@kent.ac.uk
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This article contributes to the growing research base in Turkish popular music studies with a focus on indie music from Istanbul. It situates this music within Turkey's contemporary social, cultural and political landscapes, and in relation to the country's historical cultural narrative. Istanbul indie musicians’ responses to the 2013 Gezi protests suggest that indie's counter-hegemonic aesthetics are being explored and engaged with in alignment with ‘Third Republicanism’, an emerging vision for Turkey that holds liberalism and human rights as its core ideals where the ‘First’ and ‘Second’ Republican visions held secularism and Islam respectively.

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Popular Music , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , January 2018 , pp. 40 - 62
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