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Thesis Type: Postgraduate
Institution Of The Thesis: Marmara University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Islamic History and Arts, Turkey
Approval Date: 2022
Thesis Language: Turkish
Student: HÜSEYİN TALHA FIRAT
Supervisor: Mehmet Safa Yeprem
Abstract:
Music is a cultural phenomenon that is used functionally in the modern world in different areas
like education, theraphy, politic, millitary, religious. Music is an indispensable item for the majority of
people today and the sorts of music are also increasing as social life accelerates. For this reason, music
has become a communication tool for people. In such an atmosphere, the need to understand people,
cultures, needs and desires by music increases. In order to meet this need, the demand for the sociology
of music is increasing day by day.
This research was created with the aim of comparing the general qualities and quantities of 90
studies on sociology of music made in Turkey and the United States between 1985 and 2020 by
evaluating them together with their content. Firstly, a literature review was made, studies in Turkey were
evaluated, and gaps in the field were tried to be determined. Secondly, studies made in Turkey and the
USA between 1985 and 2020 were found and evaluated. Thirdly, the bibliography of the identified
studies was extracted, and these studies were examined first by country, then comparatively, by putting
their information into tables and graphics.
Based on the data of our research, it has been determined that the studies in the field of sociology
of music in Turkey have increased chronologically over the years, there are differences in terms of
subject and content in studies in the field of sociology of music in the USA and Turkey, the studies on
local historical issues in Turkey are in the majority among other subjects, and the authors of the studies
conducted in US are mostly sociologists, and the authors of the studies in Turkey are mostly
musicians/musicologists.