
Music Culture Language is a work by Cinuçen Tanrıkorur (1938–2000), one of the most significant figures in Turkish music, published as part of Dergâh Publications’ “Music” series. It combines musicology, philosophy of art and cultural essay, presenting a collection of research, essayistic and reflective writings that reveal not only Tanrıkorur’s identity as a musicologist but also as a thinker, scholar and stylistic prose writer. First published in October 2003, the book comprises 367 pages and
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Muhammed Samed Acar

Parody, also known as mimicry, refers to the creation of a humorous, satirical, or critical effect by preserving the formal characteristics of a work or cultural production while altering its content, meaning, or context. Parody imitates a text, style, genre, discourse, or cultural practice; however, this imitation is constructed through a deliberate distance that highlights the difference between the imitation and the original. In this sense, parody is not a simple copy of the targeted text but
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Nursena Güller

Yalçın Tura (23 March 1934, Istanbul) is a Turkish composer, musicologist, theorist, and educator. He is regarded as one of the leading figures of 20th-century contemporary Turkish music.【1】 He is known for his compositional output including film and stage music, his research into the theory of Turkish music, and his efforts to bring Ottoman-era musical manuscripts into modern music literature. His approach, which integrates traditional Turkish music with Western musical techniques, has been a d
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Ayşe Aslıhan Yoran