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-	The '''music of Turkey''' includes diverse elements ranging from [[Music of Central Asia|Central Asian folk music]] and music from [[Ottoman Empire]] dominions such as [[Persian music]], [[Balkan music]] and [[Byzantine 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 Asia|South]] and [[Central Asia]].	+
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-	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]].	+
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-	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 [[Music of Armenia|Armenian]], [[Music of Greece|Greek]], [[Music of Poland|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.	+
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-	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 society. With the support of Aksu, the resurging popularity of pop music gave rise to several international Turkish pop stars such as [[Tarkan]] and [[Sertab Erener]]. The late 1990s also saw an emergence of underground music producing alternative [[Turkish rock music|Turkish rock]], [[electronica]], [[Turkish hip hop|hip-hop]], [[Hip hop music|rap]] and [[dance music]] in opposition to the mainstream corporate [[pop music|pop]] and [[Arabesque music|arabesque]] genres, which many believe have become too commercial.	+
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-	==See also==	+
-	*[[Turkish folk music]]	+
-	*[[Anatolian rock]]	+
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