The history of Turkish Arabesque Music | Al Jazeera World Documentary

When Turkish President Ataturk came to power in the 1920s, he saw the West as an example of what he wished his newly founded state of Turkey to be.
In a bid to achieve this, Turkish radio banned the broadcast of classic Ottoman music in favour of Western-style music.
But people resisted and instead tuned to Arabic music, and a new form of Turkish music emerged - Arabesque.
This film follows Martin Stokes, a professor of music at King’s College London, as he travels through Turkey, revealing how Arabesque achieved musical dominance, despite official attempts to stifle it.
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  • @aljazeeraenglish
    @aljazeeraenglish Жыл бұрын

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  • @marian8910
    @marian891011 ай бұрын

    I'm a Canadian living in Turkey. I really love Arabesque and it was great to learn about the origins of this type of music! Muslum Baba and Ibo are some of my favourite Turkish singers :)

  • @zelenka644
    @zelenka644 Жыл бұрын

    As a Turkish, I like the documentary. Thanks to all people who made this work.

  • @aljazeeraenglish

    @aljazeeraenglish

    Жыл бұрын

    We're glad you liked it. Thanks for your comment. 🙌

  • @kaiserkhan9832

    @kaiserkhan9832

    Жыл бұрын

    @@aljazeeraenglish terrible propaganda by al jazeera. your history about republic is wrong

  • @caralhoguy
    @caralhoguy9 ай бұрын

    As a person born in Australia, I am deeply in love with Arabesk followed by Halk Müziği and Türk Sanat Müziği. The rhythm is what mainly gets me. Orhan Gencebay, İbrahim Tatlıses, Zeki Muren, Ümit Besen, Müslüm Gürses, Selami Şahin, Atilla Kaya, Bergen, Gülden Karaböcek, Gökhan Güney, Ferdi Tayfur, Ferdi Özbeğen, Hakan Taşıyan, Cengiz Kurtoğlu, Coşkun Sabah and 90's era Ebru Gündeş, Sibel Can and Güllü and much more I have listened to. ❤‍🔥

  • @jamespickenorgan
    @jamespickenorgan Жыл бұрын

    I am a western musician learning Turkish. I find this fascinating and want to listen to more!

  • @rmznbsr

    @rmznbsr

    Жыл бұрын

    Orhan Gencebay ile yola devam türk müziği için en doğru ve en büyük isim O dur

  • @bentopraktanbircanm7642

    @bentopraktanbircanm7642

    Жыл бұрын

    Listen to Orhan Gencebay songs.. Because He is the most crazy, talented and on top compositer to Turkish music. 👌🏻👌🏻

  • @aljazeeraenglish

    @aljazeeraenglish

    Жыл бұрын

    We're glad that you liked it, dear Jim. 🙌

  • @resonatingergonomicsdnb2426
    @resonatingergonomicsdnb2426 Жыл бұрын

    I fell in love with 1930's Turkish music after discovering it on the Radiooooooo Musical Time Travel App. I started writing a Turkish Drum and Bass track inspired the little i had heard in my life through Loreena McKennit and the international culture channel on TV. I saught out a documentary to learn more about the culture. This was a perfect documentary to learn from and give greater context. My song is well on its way. I have a greater understanding now. Loved this documentary. Fun to learn from so many musicologists and historians. Thanks.

  • @roshanwahaj
    @roshanwahaj Жыл бұрын

    It is my most favorite country I love it's culture, music and drama I want this channel to highlight about it more and more💜💜💜

  • @tarkbasman1418
    @tarkbasman14187 ай бұрын

    Ferdi TAYFUR KENDİNE MÜNHASIR BAŞKA BİR EKOLDÜR.KRAL,DIR

  • @bentopraktanbircanm7642
    @bentopraktanbircanm7642 Жыл бұрын

    Listen to Orhan Gencebay songs.. Because He is the most crazy, talented and on top compositer to Turkish music.

  • @caralhoguy

    @caralhoguy

    9 ай бұрын

    Yes he's a legend, I'd like to meet him some day.

  • @bentopraktanbircanm7642

    @bentopraktanbircanm7642

    9 ай бұрын

    @@caralhoguy Me too... we Turks say: insha'Allah 😊

  • @yldrm5898
    @yldrm5898 Жыл бұрын

    Farkımız tarzımız Orhan Baba baştacımız 😎🇹🇷👏👏👏

  • @bentopraktanbircanm7642
    @bentopraktanbircanm7642 Жыл бұрын

    King Orhan Gencebay... 👑

  • @suleyman7624

    @suleyman7624

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@ahmet_2524Kaç bestesi var? Sıfır

  • @caralhoguy
    @caralhoguy Жыл бұрын

    Arabesque music 🔝❤

  • @barsvarlar8773
    @barsvarlar8773 Жыл бұрын

    Orhan Gencebay krallllllll Gencebay

  • @buzfatih
    @buzfatih Жыл бұрын

    One night, at the Dolmabahçe Palace, while Turkish music was banned and removed from the radio, Yunus Nadi Bey made a request to ATATÜRK. - My Pasha said, "Let them not deprive us of Turkish songs and folk songs, we are hurt because our taste and emotions are being interfered with." ATATÜRK replied as follows: - I like it too, but a revolutionary generation has to endure deprivation and sacrifice. However, our national culture should be valued. This statement of ATATÜRK clearly shows that the total prohibition of Turkish music does not mean that it should be removed from the radio. (I didn't know that Egypt's music and cinema industry was so developed in the 1930s.)

  • @bentopraktanbircanm7642
    @bentopraktanbircanm7642 Жыл бұрын

    Sonu neden kesik?

  • @priscillabush6319
    @priscillabush6319 Жыл бұрын

  • @hassanshobow4996
    @hassanshobow4996 Жыл бұрын

    I would have appreciated if you translating vocally,

  • @user-vz1wk1oi4s
    @user-vz1wk1oi4s6 ай бұрын

    Was the Oud instrument banned in Turkey during the 1930s?

  • @ottodix4472
    @ottodix447210 ай бұрын

    Where can i find the song in 24:28 ?

  • @keremsenoglu3874

    @keremsenoglu3874

    10 ай бұрын

    Orhan Gencebay batsın bu dünya

  • @mohammadabdelqader7326
    @mohammadabdelqader7326 Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating/ Infuriating/ 1984

  • @user-zb4be9wj9p
    @user-zb4be9wj9p5 ай бұрын

    28:35 he says “daha evvel”, not “dağ evvel” 😆 he wrote it “before”, not wrote “in the mountains” hahaha

  • @YildirayTuna
    @YildirayTuna Жыл бұрын

    Doğu müziğini batılı enstrümanları ile sentezleyen büyük bir sanatçıdır Orhan Gencebay.

  • @sdenizince
    @sdenizince10 ай бұрын

    There are 2 great masters of arabesque in Turkey, one is Orhan gencebay and the other is Müslüm Gürses, others are just garnishes

  • @mayacardano9905

    @mayacardano9905

    9 ай бұрын

    I disagree… Ibrahim Tatlises is the king as well.

  • @pinhan4145
    @pinhan4145 Жыл бұрын

    Great respect to Al Jazeera. Although they do not go deep into the issue, it is very important that they touched the taboos. Unfortunately, the murderer of Turkish music is Mustafa Kemal and his followers. They completely emptied the genuine Turkish culture and filled it with substitute values from the west. It's sad, but they even brought the music from there. Well, weren't there efforts to westernize music in the Ottoman palace, too? Of course there was. But they NEVER BANNED Classical forms. Musicians continued to produce works of tradition, not only around the palace, but everywhere. We have a very famous folk poet named Aşık Veysel. Kemalists beat him badly just because he plays baglama and produces "Yobaz" music. He narrates this story himself. Thank you again. Turkish society still lives in a prison called Kemalism. This prison is more bigoted, more reactionary than the administration they call "political Islam", and it is a hate-filled prison that does not allow anyone but itself the right to live. Even culturally. Cumhuriyet tarihinin en büyük müzisyeni, Orhan Gencebay. Seni tanıdığım için öyle şanslıyım ki… iç dünyamın mimarisinin inşasında sesinin, sazının ve sözünün büyük payı var. Şu saçma “devrimi” Mustafa Kemal’den başkası yapsa nasıl konuşacaktı acaba insanlar? Hiçkimse bu saçmalığa 100 yıl sonra bile linç ve hapis korkusuyla içinden geçenleri söyleyemiyor. Türk musikisinin bugün içinde bulunduğu zavallılığı kısmen de olsa güzel açıklamış belgesel. Tabii bazı sebeplerle derine inilmemiş. Bu arada Mısır dediğimiz yer 1882’ye kadar fiilen, 1924’de kadar da resmen Türk toprağı. Ülkenin seçkinleri de Türk ağırlıklı. Sanki iki farklı ülke, iki farklı kültürden bahsediliyor. Muhammed Abdül Wahab’ın annesi Türk’tür mesela. Eserlerinde de Türk müziğinin tınılarını bulursunuz. Birbirlerine yabancı, alakasız kültürler değil bu iki kültür. Bu kadarı için bile teşekkürler. “Türk” müziğinin niçin öldüğünü güzel ifade eden, anlatan bir belgesel. Bugün Türk müziği ölmüştür. Sebebi de mâlum.

  • @kaiserkhan9832

    @kaiserkhan9832

    Жыл бұрын

    arabin propagandasiyla tarih ogrenen malum kitle. sizi takan mi var? sen evrim gercegini bile ogrenmmissin, ondan sonra ulke yonetimd soz sahibi mi olacaksin? komiksin.

  • @tengriciturk5358

    @tengriciturk5358

    Жыл бұрын

    Saçma sensin Mustafa Kemal Atatürk olmasaydı bugün dinlediğiniz müziklerde olmayacaktı evet en büyük devrimci Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

  • @GeorgeCarlin88

    @GeorgeCarlin88

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@tengriciturk5358 bu itlerin derdi müzik kültür değil. Atatürk düşmanlığı yapmak. Mustafa Kemal yazmış Atatürk yazamamış "orçun"...

  • @gonulfirtinasi
    @gonulfirtinasi Жыл бұрын

    Arabeks muziginin sadece adi Yanlistir. Gencebay Türk müziğinin kalici eserleriyle özünü Halktan alip Dunya evrensel muzikalitesini gelistiren serbest Türk müzik dünyasinda yerini almistir.

  • @xskrym

    @xskrym

    Жыл бұрын

    That's deep

  • @busblu1475
    @busblu1475 Жыл бұрын

    Algeria was asking france to apologise for colonialism and conquering. They should ask Arabia to apologise for this same reasons. Isn't it?

  • @sharwama992

    @sharwama992

    Жыл бұрын

    North Africans love their Arab colonizers. The funniest of them isn’t even a North African country SUDAN 😂.

  • @pinhan4145

    @pinhan4145

    Жыл бұрын

    Thats nonsense.

  • @kindhani8134

    @kindhani8134

    Жыл бұрын

    You don't understand colonialsm at all colonialism was created by western nations in the 18th century and is not comparable to conquering and at the time Arabs conquered Algeria there was no Algeria it was a land conquered by the Romans. Colonialism is a political and economic ideology that strives to exploit and profit from it imperialism was created you simply lack knowledge of history and politics and are using blatant whatabousim that doesn't even make any sense Arabs weren't a nationality but an ethnicity and still are so and colonialism didn't exist at that time conquering foreign land was the normal but the people became part of the empire and weren't used as a mean to profit the conquerors land economically. And colonialism also uses European race theories to justify itself dehumanizing the conquered and glorifying any act done against them. No sane person would compare colonist France to Hellenist Greece or the British Empire to the Roman Empire .

  • @user-uz9zi8hp8o

    @user-uz9zi8hp8o

    9 ай бұрын

    Algeria is amazigh Land not arab Land but we speak Arabic because we are Muslim and Arab help us in our revolution . In other hand turk dumb us whene French show up Turk run back to turkiye and they made song about algeria call cezayir something So for turk Arab are traitor For many algerian turk are traitor And arabesque music it mix between Arab tarab and perse and greek. Brdway I'm algerian and I don't heat turk neither Arab or even French the past is the past lot of bad thing happened then and as they say everything happens for reason and only God knows what's reason. I'm discovering turkish culture and languish and history wich I found deeply fascinating hope I can learn more ❤

  • @matamatosa8898
    @matamatosa88985 ай бұрын

    Arabesuq music is EGYPTIAN not Arab Arabesuq music is EGYPTIAN not Arab Arabesuq music is EGYPTIAN not Arab