Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Ideology and Communication Symbolic Reflections of Intellectual Designs, Zeynep Gültekin Akçay,Mahmut Akgül, Editör, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., Berlin, ss.85-103, 2020
Popular music plays a crucial role in the dissemination of ideologies to the masses
by the incorporation of lyrics in to songs. Music can be defined as a social signifier which
denotes the identity of the individuals by indicating as to what might be right. Music
itself gives an individual identity within a group that comes from belonging to a community.
Even though music is not an ideology, music functions just the same as ideology
by allowing individuals to place themselves in to a group that generates the categories of
“self and the other”. These identities are mostly shaped by the dominant ideology and its
discourse in a certain period of a time. In our post-modern consumption culture, music
serves the globalization ideology by tracing popular trends in a particular of music genre
in a certain time. In spite of the essential role of music in maintaining the globalization
ideology, it is seen that there are a few of studies that attract attention to the close relationship
between music and globalization ideology in the literature. Therefore, arabesque
music of the 1980s and rap music of the 2000s are selected of being popular music genres
in Turkey in order to discover the relationship between globalization ideology and the
music consumption. In the study, arabesque and rap music were reviewed as a production
of music industries in consumption culture from the perspective of Critical Theory, rather
than rather than being a genre.