Anatolian rock

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Music of Turkey: Topics

Turkish classic	Military
Turkish folk	Oriental
Turkish pop	Religious music
Turkish rock	Rebetiko
Turkish style	Arabesque

Genres: Alternative - Classical - Dance - Folk - Hip hop - Jazz - Military - Ottoman - Opera - Pop - Religious - Rock

Awards

Kral MV, MÜ-YAP, MGD

Charts

Billboard Charts

Music Festivals

Istanbul International Music Festival, Istanbul International Jazz Festival, Izmir European Jazz Festival, Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival

Media

Rolling Stone (Türkiye), MTV (Türkiye)

National anthem

"Independence March"

Turkish Marches

"Tenth year March", "Ottoman marches", "European marches"

Ethnic music

Armenian - Azeri - Bosnian - Greek - Jewish - Kurdish - Pontic - Romani - Zaza - Other immigrants and minorities

Regional folk styles

Aegean - Rumeli - Black Sea - Cyprus

Ottoman regional styles

Albanian - Arabic - Armenian - Balkans - Cypriot - Egyptian - Greek - Hungarian - Kurdish - Persian - Polish - Pontic - Thracian

Turkish rock band Moğollar

Turkish rock band Bulutsuzluk Özlemi

Turkish rock is a fusion of Turkish folk and rock music. It emerged during the mid-1960s, soon after rock groups such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Yes, Status Quo, and Omega became popular in Turkey. Anatolian Rock (Turkish: Anadolu Rock) is characterized through the work of Turkish musicians like Murat Ses, Cem Karaca, Barış Manço, Erkin Koray and bands such as Moğollar, Kurtalan Ekspres, Mavi Işıklar, Apaşlar and Kardaşlar. Today, Anatolian Rock is a general term used to describe music derived from both traditional Turkish folk music and Rock.

1 History and Development
2 Related musicians and bands
- 2.1 Bands
- 2.2 Individuals
3 Large-scale rock festivals (past and current)
4 References and notes
5 External links

The Turkish Rock movement began, by early estimates, in the 1950s with the arrival of The Shadows and developed further during the next decade with the arrival and increasing popularity of many of the English-speaking bands mentioned above. Concomitantly with the introduction of these groups, Turkish society began to undergo significant cultural changes, for example the growth of multi-party democracy in the region.^[1] These simultaneous developments aided the growth, development, and increasing popularity of the musical style.

Following these developments, from 1966 to about 1975, psychedelic rock became extremely popular in Turkey, notably the work of guitarist Erkin Koray. After that, more progressive-styled bands garnered popularity, with older performers like Cem Karaca (Safinaz, 1978) and Moğollar (Düm-tek) moving as well towards progressive Anatolian rock style.

As other Rock genres gained popularity in Turkey, Anatolian Rock also began to diversify. In the last decade, there has been a growth of Turkish rock bands such as Pentagram, Mor ve Ötesi, Kargo, Çilekeş, Dorian, Duman and maNga, the latter having won the "Best Rock Band" award in almost all polls in 2005. The specific influences acting upon these bands fall into a wide range of genres from the Seattle Sound to heavy or doom metal and rapcore. Hence, Anatolian rock refers to a fusion of a wide selection of western rock subgenres with either a traditional Turkish sound or indeed, even rock music with Turkish lyrics. Such cultural fusion led the way for rock music to develop in Turkey.