The New Cultural Climate in Turkey
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Contents Giriş 1980'lerin Kültürel İklimi Vitrinde Yaşamak Adlandırılmak Mahrumiyet İktidarın Sağlığı Krizin İmkânları Vicdan ve Teknik Bastırılmışın Geri Dönüşü Teklifi Olmayan Kültür Author Big cultural critic who is on par with Orhan Koçak in terms of escaping the dry scholasticism of most Turkish literary criticism writing. Context Looking back at the cultural climate of the 1980s as both a period of political repression and widespread cultural opening. Thesis Power was able to use consumerism and a certain formulation of identity expression, individualism, and openness as a way to counter the political edge and liberatory demands of the 1970s. Methodology Pops in some Benjamin here, some Freud there, tries to be rambling in an appealing way, but it doesn’t really work. Key Terms Criticisms and Questions It works best as a social history of Arabesk music, that which was able to best capture the zeitgeist of fake-authentic culture which allowed for small town guys to become millionaires. Notes |
-Atakoy Galeria was like the Kaaba, a destination to shop, rather than shopping being a part of the fabric of the city
- Gencebey was about unfulfilled desire, Tatlises was about immediate gratification.
- The crying boy and political ads with children with flies on their face gave way to professional ad style campaigns that erased collective claims to fighting poverty.
-Arabesk music was faux-authentic, played everywhere, the music of the small town interloper.
- Things were seen, things became spectacles.
-Underneath the festival glamour was state repression.