Popular Music and Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies: Ideology, Control and resistance in Turkey since 2002

218 Pages·2017·9.597 MB·English

by  Lyndon C. S. Way

Popular Music and Multimodal
Critical Discourse Studies
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Popular Music and Multimodal
Critical Discourse Studies
Ideology, Control, and Resistance
in Turkey Since 2002
Lyndon C. S. Way
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Names: Way, Lyndon C. S. author.
Title: Popular music and multimodal critical discourse studies : ideology,
control and resistance in Turkey since 2002 / Lyndon C. S. Way.
Description: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. | Includes bibliographical
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Subjects: LCSH: Popular music–Political aspects–Turkey.
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Contents
List of Figures viii
Acknowledgments x
Preface xi
1 Introduction 1
2 Approaches to the Study of Music and Meaning 11
3 Diffi cult Relations: Music, Politics, and Authenticity 33
4 Turkey under the Stewardship of AKP 51
5 Political Parties and Pop 65
6 Concerts as Multimodal Communication 91
7 Music Videos against Government Policies 115
8 Online Music in Social Movements 135
9 Politics, Music, and Social Media Posts 159
10 Final Notes 175
Notes 183
References 185
Index 197
List of Figures
2.1 Troubled times 21
2.2 Dancing protester’s demand image 28
2.3 Police and dancer’s off er image 29
2.4 Police as unthinking robots 29
5.1 A typical pre-election street scene 65
5.2 AKP’s Turkey 72
5.3 Conservative unity 73
5.4 Gender 75
5.5 Powerful Erdoğan 75
5.6 Musical notation 78
5.7 AKP verse line one 78
5.8 AKP verse line two 79
5.9 AKP chorus 80
5.10 CHP logo 84
5.11 Kılıcdaroğlu as legitimate politician 85
5.12 Victimization 86
5.13 CHP verse 89
6.1 Sharing microphones with “the crew” 96
6.2 Community through body motion and sounds 99
6.3 Unity with musicians 101
6.4 Strength in physical unity dance 105
6.5 Hand gestures of resistance 107
6.6 Grup Yorum play at Kızıldere 108
6.7 Stage position 110
6.8 Grup Yorum poster pose 111
7.1 Hayko Cepkin 117
7.2 Overexposure of lighting, dark setting, and conservative clothes 118
7.3 Rock transformation 119
7.4 Duman 120
7.5 Religious conservatism 121
7.6 Grup Kızılırmak 122
7.7 Alevi and Kurds’ working conditions 124