Between the sacred silence and sleep": System of a down, music, identity, memory
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Abstract (EN)
As a significant component of popular culture, rock music is a genre which has listeners and consumers in almost all the countries and also a genre which progressively gains wider currency through mass communication. The band, System of a Down mainly plays heavy metal which is a sub-genre of rock, and is a world famous representative of this music. Consisting of Armenian members, this identity has an important domain in political discourse of the band. Group also has fans and followers and an audience in Turkey. What this thesis aims is to understand what makes System of a Down attracting attention in terms of its listeners and social-political context of Turkey and to examine the band in the axis of music, politics and Armenian issue.
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Şahin Özdemir
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Şahin Özdemir (Master Thesis). Between the sacred silence and sleep": System of a down, music, identity, memory, 2019, Hacettepe University.
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