Topics in Contemporary Turkish Music

Course problematizes the activity of the exterritorial composer. It can be asserted that the western serious music has established itself as the main reference point for other musical domains, peu a peu, after the French Revolution. Course attempts to problematize the self-styled and auto-centralizing qualities of western thought of music on the one hand and discourses of identity of the non-western composers on the other. Considerations of generally extra-musical fields of contemporary social thought and of diverse authors such as Levinas, Adorno, Derrida, Deleuze, oriental and colonial studies, cultural and gender studies etc. are vital part of course. On the empirical side presents New Turkish Music the main subject matter to be tackled.