Arabesque Music_part 2

CONTINUE: MORE INFORMATION ON ARABESQUE MUSIC
Arabesque music is very melodic and emotional. The main theme of the lyrics has always been ‘love’. Every other theme, especially in the early lyrics, melts into and speaks through the authority of love. The early lyrics are usually made up of ‘traditional’ concepts. The musical structure of arabesque is hybrid, blending both Turkish Classical and Folklore music’s rhythms, modes, forms and instruments and popular Western rhythms, instruments and scoring system for individual instruments.

HISTORY OF ARABESQUE MUSIC
The bureaucrats and intellectuals of diverse political inclinations in Turkey have shared the opinion that arabesque is tasteless and grieved and reflect the alienation of the new urban migrant citizens who brought the village with them to the big cities degrading the city (esp. Istanbul).

Bureaucrats is someone within an institution of a government.

"A music of alienation" is the major concept coined to arabesque in the Encyclopaedia of Music. The left in general emphasized that arabesque is traditional (backward), preaches fatalism.

This is something interesting!
The Turkish Classical and Folklore musicians condemned it for corrupting classical forms due to the both Arabic and Western influences. As a matter of fact, the word ‘arabesque’ has carried a negative connotation from the beginning and its meaning grew like a snowball with each new connotation. The word was first coined in the 1960s to mean that the new music was an imitation of arabic music due to the infusion of the Egyptian melodic nuances and the style of the string performance.

hen the word came to be used as an adjective to name almost everything and every aspect of social life considered to be degraded, which really meant matching neither with ‘traditional’ nor ‘modern’ forms (arabesque democracy, economy, people, situation, taste, feelings, way of thinking and living). ---> HAHA I will now use Arabesque as a bad word!! Miss Tina is an arabesque!! LOLZ

http://ignca.nic.in/ls_03013.htm
In the last paragraph of the website, it explains relations of arabesque to modernization theory. I can't really understand as its abit chim. Will discuss this with Mr Alex.

EVOLUTION OF ARABESQUE MUSIC
Since the end of the 1960s the genre has undergone change, given birth to many versions, differentiated as it got more popular and thus reproduced itself with different audiences, as the music industry developed and social relations and people changed. In time, especially in the 1980s, it became more of a medium of entertainment, football game’s musical slogans and political campaign songs. Arabesque music influenced other popular musical genres too, that is classical Turkish music, folkloric music, pop music which are also officially permitted on the state TV, especially with its melodic patterns, rhythmic emphasis and performance of the instruments and the singer.

I agree!! Right now its extremely difficult to distinguish an arabesque music from turkish music or even a pure arabic music.

Musician and politician Zülfü Livaneli states, "The arabesque trend is not only a form of music; rather, it is the identity problem of a nation placed between East and West, and unable to integrate with either of them." ----> A few sources have also stated that arabesque is neither here nor there.

http://www.turkishmusicportal.org/page.php?id=34&lang2=en
This website is a bomb! Its greatly explain the evolution in arabesque music. Very interesting indeed!! I will summarize it later. Am still reading it.