Alaturka: Style in Turkish Music (1923-1938)

The early-Republican era (1923-1938) was a major period of musical and cultural change in Turkey. Representing more than twenty years of research, Alaturka: Style in Turkish Music is a study of the significance of style in Turkish music and, in particular, the polemical debate about an eastern style of Turkish music (alaturka) that developed during this rich and complicated era of Turkish history.