Amateur choirs of Turkish classical music and music practices in İzmir in the contex of socialization

The music associations, which came out to teach Turkish music with its theoretical and practical aspects, have transformed much within historical process and become performance associations which people attend by the aim of making music together with socializing. Individuals have been attending to these societies the number of which passes one hundred and which multiply day to day due to the reasons being out of the music that are friendship, getting environment, feeling relieved, therapy, status and all of them can subtitled under the socialization title. The reasons like oppression, stress, solitude, becoming strangers which modernization and city life establish on the individual have been increasing the people?s need in this kind of mediums day to day.The individual has been providing the energy to stand on the daily life he complaint, protecting his spirit?s health, stating himself, feeling his own existence and going away lostness emotion and holding life thanks to these mediums. The quick increase in the number of choruses is concerned not only with the increase in metropol people?s need in these mediums but closely with providing additional income and with the unemployment lived in ?zmir. For these reasons, amateur music societies have become income tool for many people. The associations whose orientation is Turkish music and which addresses to music taste of audience and meet the need in listening music in ?zmir are amateur societies. The reason of that is the direct relation between that the repertoire the societies passed pertains to commonly 1950 and above and that Turkish music audience happened from the mass which occured with this repertoire. Repertoire is heavily song as kind and it is played with the market manner or in a syncretic manner in which the market manner and pure manner are harmonized.