Folkloric analysis of adapting Anatolian songs to anatolian pop-rock music

From the last period of the Ottoman Empire to the early Republican period, musical synthesis studies, that are results of combining the technic of the Western music with Turkish music, were the heralds of the Anatolian pop-rock genre which emerged in 1960s. Anatolian pop-rock is a genre which includes the blend of traditional Turkish folk music's melodic motifs, rhythmic motifs, and its instruments with Western music's technic and instruments. It is the synthesis of Anatolian and Western music cultures. The genre mentioned in this study is analyzed in the means of updating the tradition, authenticity, culture industry and intertextuality. In addition, comparative analyzes were conducted with the correlation of quotation, allusion, and pastiche techniques. In the light of acquired knowledge, it has been realized that Anatolian pop-rock genre is a contemporary interpretation of folk music tradition. Because, as core elements of culture, traditions are not fixed in the past, they are in consistent alteration and transformation. Traditions and the authentic cultural products and practices that reprsent them, influence of globalization and technologic improvements have a strucuture that combines the old with new including the innovations of the age and environment lived. Although by the time it emerged it was not part of music industry because of globalization and technologic improvements, later it was understood that Anatolian pop-rock cannot exist without music industry, and will exist as a part of this order. Keywords: Anatolian Pop-Rock, Tradition, Authenticity, Intertextuality (Intermusicality), Culture Industry.