Middle Eastern music

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 108. Chapters: Arab music, Caucasus music, Tunisian music, Turkish music, Turkish hip hop, Music of Turkey, Arabic music, Arabic hip hop, Y. Misdaq, Arabian maqam, Kemenche, Dabke, Manga, Misirlou, Music of Palestine, Persian traditional music, Kurdish music, List of makams, Arabic pop music, Pizmonim, Music of Tunisia, Andalusian classical music, Music of Thrace, Circassian Music, Ottoman military band, Kanto, Music in the Republic of Adygea, Françoise Atlan, Ottoman classical music, Safi al-Din al-Urmawi, Turkish pop music, Tichumaren, Sari Gelin, Andalusi nubah, Henry George Farmer, Kulna Sawa, Checkpoint 303, Cairo Congress of Arab Music, Am Bemzah Ma'ak, Turkish folk music, Turkish State Opera and Ballet, Ashik, Ataaba, Arabesque, Hewar, Humat Al Hima, Muwashshah, The Chehade Brothers, Anatolian rock, Cümbüs, Eski Ordu Marsi, Usul, Oni Wytars, Pesrev, Liwa, Türkiye Top 20, Iqa', Müyorbir, No blues, Arab tone system, Ossetian music, Coptic music, Arab Orchestra of Nazareth, Khigga, Yalli, Karsilama, Tunisian underground music, Turkish airplay chart, Özsoy, Bozlak, Amina Alaoui, Mawwal, Plevna March, Cocek, Fasil, Lavta, Saz semai, Fijiri, Bendir, Rodolphe d'Erlanger, Maqam al-iraqi, A Ballad for Chanakkale, Layla and Majnun, Takht, Samanyolu, Fann at-Tanbura, Zeybek dance, Çiftetelli, Beste, Beledi, Wazn, Türkü, Amine and Hamza M'raihi, Music of Nagorno-Karabakh, Taqsim, Mezwed, Gazel, Istancool, Zaffa, Basit, Manjur, Ma'luf, Longa, Sama'i, Music in the Republic of Dagestan, MTV Europe Music Award for Best Turkish Act, Yürük semai, Chaabi, Waslah, Taqtuqa, Firqa, Samri, Hicaz Hümâyun Saz Semâisi, Dawr, Middle Eastern hip hop, Layali, Turkish musical instruments, Jins, Anadolu Pop, Ahaat, Misket, Music in Krasnodar Krai, Teslim, Music in the Republic of Ingushetia, Sarki, Dulab, Lazma, Arab Sound Awards, Tahmilah, Adani. Excerpt: The music of Turkey includes diverse elements ranging from Central Asian folk music has many copies and references of Greek music and music from Ottoman Empire dominions such as Greek -Byzantine music, Persian music, Balkan music, as well as more modern European and American popular music influences. In turn, it has influenced these cultures through the Ottoman Empire. Turkey is a country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, and is a crossroad of cultures from across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus and South and Central Asia. The roots of traditional music in Turkey spans across centuries to a time when the Seljuk Turks colonized Anatolia and Persia in the 11th century and contains elements of both Turkic and pre-Turkic influences. Much of its modern popular music can trace its roots to the emergence in the early 1930s drive for Westernization. With the assimilation of immigrants from various regions the diversity of musical genres and musical instrumentation also expanded. Turkey has also seen documented folk music and recorded popular music produced in the ethnic styles of Greek, Armenian, Music of Albania, Polish, Azeri and Jewish communities, among others. Many Turkish cities and towns have vibrant local music scenes which, in turn, support a number of regional musical styles. Despite this however, western-style pop music lost popularity to arabesque in the late 70s and 80s, with even its greatest proponents Ajda Pekkan and Sezen Aksu falling in status. It became popular again by the beginning of the 1990s, as a result of an opening economy and soci...