Turkish Metal: Music, Meaning, and Morality in a Muslim Society

Ferrarese, Marco

doi:10.1080/03007766.2013.790602

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“…Metal music is an adversary to the mainstream agenda of politics. Unsurprisingly, heavy metal in Turkey in the 1990s was typically demonized and excluded in Western societies since the 1970s (Hecker, 2016; Varas‐Díaz & Scott, 2016; Weinstein, 1991). But society merely experienced this in a more accelerated way within the current debates of the new world inevitably brought about by the 1990s.…”

Section: Post‐ September 12 Axes: Pop Music Arabesque Challenge Retre...mentioning

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“…In this context, a culture of solidarity was maintained, especially in the streets of Bakirkoy, Beyoglu, and Taksim on the European side of Istanbul, and also Kadikoy in the Eastern part, through spatial ties with new music markets, bars, and cafes that seemed like a shelter, where rock and metal culture developed and individual interactions were established (Hecker, 2016, p. 37–40). From this point of view, it can be said that heavy metal represents urban youth instead of the rural arabesque, is strengthened by the dynamic interaction with urbanization, in a liberal tendency that has a social attitude.…”

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“…This culture has emerged in the central cities, in another way against the mainstream statist thought, especially in the hands of well‐educated and related‐to‐the‐world youth in the elite high schools. Especially, “Kadikoy Anatolian High School played a crucial role for Istanbul disseminating rock and metal music in Turkish youth” and Moda Cinema as a concert place was important, close proximity to this school (Hecker, 2016, p. 38, 9. 66).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The musical environment, in which social and economic relations are reflected, is a subject that is discussed more frequently in different styles, in Turkey as well as in Turkish (Degirmenci, 2013; Gedik, 2017; Stokes, 2010). Heavy metal, on the other hand, is a sub‐title in which these works are done less frequently (Hecker, 2016; Osterlund, 2018). While this study aims to eliminate a deficiency in this direction, it also aims to reveal the different dimensions of the subject.…”

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Heavy metal in Turkey: Tracking the tensions of democratization in the 1990s

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Music, as a form of public discourse, invariably becomes a social science field that is considered more in the postmodern era when the boundaries are blurred. This study examines the political and cultural links between the emergence of the heavy metal genre and Turkish democracy. There are correlations between the prevalence of heavy metal in Turkey and the country's social and political transition in the 1990s and the search for a new path. The main argument here is that, among the country's tense democratization efforts and social problems, the heavy metal genre also indirectly carries the distinct traces of a different political search for the youth of the 1990s, although not directly. Democratic politics is a process established by daily life with the direct influence of societal interactions, and Turkish politics, and cultural life, in this case, heavy metal, include important notions in this remarkable manner. The main point symbolized by metal music in Turkey was its lyrical and artistic ability to express different points of view loudly enough against the uniform religious and nationalist culture that could be offensive, while other mainstream ranges such as pop and arabesque music didn't mind this issue.

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“…In the Norwegian cases, church arson was connected to sonic extremity together with acts of violence between musicians, and it seems likely that accusations against Marilyn Manson were fanned by then-recent album title Antichrist Superstar (1996). In locations outside Western Europe and North America, too, association with metal music has been targeted by authorities as deviance in ways that conflate religious transgressions with threats to political and social order (Barone, 2015;Hecker, 2012;LeVine, 2009;Magout, 2010). This history of controversy has frequently conflated the question of metal's impact on individual and social health with the issue of metal's religious connotations.…”

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Imaginaries of spirituality, violence and health impacts in metal music: A critical history and case study

Coggins

2019

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In popular discourse, and in some research on music and health, a vague but universal healing potential is sometimes attributed to music in general. An important counterpoint appears in heavy metal music, which is often assumed to have deleterious effects on listeners and on society. This article reviews debates in politics, news media and research on health and metal music from the 1970s to the present, with particular focus on the UK and US contexts. Showing that research has been influenced by moral panics and legal controversies, the article demonstrates how ideas about transgressive religiosity have often influenced debates about health and harm surrounding metal music. A disciplinary and methodological polarisation is noted between, on one hand, psychological and behavioural lab experiments, and on the other, social sciences and humanities research with more ethnographic or contextual approaches. Noting that some lab-based methods seem highly contrived and even unethical, this article argues for an approach to research in this field which studies real listening practices. A case study of violence, religion and health is then outlined concerning the extreme subgenre of drone metal. In this music culture, listener discourses touch on mysticism, ritual and the sacred; on health, healing and catharsis; and on different modes of abstract and physical violence, in highly interrelated and sometimes surprising ways. The article concludes that noise and extreme music may offer particularly powerful —yet under-appreciated, at least to critics outside metal cultures— resources for positively influencing listeners’ health.

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The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music

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Awakening – an Islamic media company formed in London – has created the soundtrack to many Muslim lives during the last two decades and has produced superstars like Sami Yusuf and Maher Zain, among a host of other artists. As the company celebrates its first 20 years in the industry, the book examines Awakening’s rise to global success and their pop music inspired by Islam. Providing the first thorough description of the history and development of new Islamic popular music genres, in particular pop-nashid and Islamic pop, this book argues that Awakening is best understood in relation to the ethical turn in Islamic thinking. In analysing the turn to ethics, the book explores how the Islamic pop industry is, in effect, altering the very formulations of Islamic thought. Closely examining the ethical masculinity of the Awakening artists, alongside their personas in songs, on stage and via social media, the book analyses how popular culture and the creative arts challenge and help change Islamic (re)thinking. The author has been on tour with Awakening artists, analysed the media output by the company and interviewed artists, the Awakening founders, video directors and other key people in the business.

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Turkish Metal: Music, Meaning, and Morality in a Muslim Society

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Heavy metal in Turkey: Tracking the tensions of democratization in the 1990s

Heavy metal in Turkey: Tracking the tensions of democratization in the 1990s

Imaginaries of spirituality, violence and health impacts in metal music: A critical history and case study

The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music

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