Turkish and German-Turkish Pop Music

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. 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.

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.