Atatürk in Anatolian Minstrel Music And Literature


This study aims at identifying and presenting the recorded/audio productions by minstrels, who are the representatives of minstrel tradition who sing poems accompanied by music on all issues in social, economic, political, belief, etc. fields, which depicts personal characteristics and revolutions of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the savior of the homeland and founder of the republic. Preliminary study indicated that the works and publications with the theme of Atatürk contain minstrel poems, but do not include minstrel music that is another existential elements of the minstrel tradition. For this reason, in this study, twenty-nine minstrel production with Atatürk theme have been identified, notated and their musical and literary structures have been shown. For the study, archive and literature surveys were conducted, and the information and musical data obtained were descriptively analyzed with content and musical analysis methods and the results were revealed in the findings. minstrels' perception of Atatürk was evaluated over the musical-literary structure of the works covered by the study. After all, it has been revealed that minstrels who play and sing in all issues of concern to the society, wrote their great love and loyalty to the homeland, nation and Atatürk the savior in the form of "Güzelleme" (praise), "Koçaklama" (epical folk poem) and "Ağıt" (mourning) and their critical feelings for those who defame Atatürk and his revolutions in the form of "Taşlama" (lampoonery), and that composed their music in the form of "Kırık Hava" (rhythmic melody), "Uzun Hava" (rhythymless melody) and "Ağıt", "Maya" and "Deyiş" where both forms are used together. In Anatolian minstrel tradition, abolition of caliphate, hat and letter revolutions and particularly republic, democracy and laicism principles of Atatürk -who was the foremost leader that has been the subject of minstrel productions-, are emphasized in the exemplary productions by minstrel.


Keywords


Anatolian Minstrel Music, Anatolian Minstrel Literature, Anatolian Minstrel Poetry, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Revolutions.

Author : Makbule ORAL
Number of pages: 1337-1362
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.42006
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Turkish Studies-Social Sciences
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