The Turkish psychedelic music explosion
Subtitle: Anadolu psych 1965-1980
By: Daniel Spicer
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781912248056
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Rock music; Psychedelic rock music; Music; Popular music; History
Other titles: Anadolu psych 1965-1980
Description: "In the mid-1960s, a new generation of young Turkish musicians combined Western pop music with traditional Anatolian folk to forge the home-grown phenomenon of Anadolu Pop. But that was just the beginning. Through the second half of that turbulent decade, Turkish rock warped and transformed, striking out into wilder and stranger territory - fuelled by the psychedelic revolution and played out over a backdrop of cultural, social and political turmoil. The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion tells the story of a musical movement that was brought to an end by a right-wing coup in 1980, largely forgotten and only recently being rediscovered by Western crate-diggers. It's a tale of larger-than-life musical pioneers with raging political passions and visionary ideas ripe for rediscovery."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: New sounds for a new society; title: Moğollar: the legend of Mount Ararat; title: Cem Karaca: poverty is not destiny; title: Ersen: don't look down on me, brother; title: 3 Hürel: life's road goes on forever; title: Wednesday morning in Kadıköy; title: Barış Manço: rivers run through the meadows; title: Edip Akbayram: a wispy, wispy snow falls; title: Selda: the bitter sound of Turkey; title: Bunalım: there is a stone, there is a dog; title: Erkin Koray: electronic ballads; title: The jazz parallel; title: A trip to Unkapanı; title: The axe falls; title: Postscript.