(Institute of Social Sciences, 2019)
Çekmeci, Elif Ceyda; Tanır, Emine Şirin Özgün; 569354; Music; Müzik
Music for Peace Foundation (Barış İçin Müzik Vakfı) is a non-profit organization that provides free music education to children, based in Edirnekapı, Istanbul. It was founded in 2005 and continues to work since then with the aim of creating an opportunity for as many children as possible to participate in cultural and artistic life. The organization is also called El Sistema Turkey as it is a part of the global network of El Sistema organizations that operate in accordance with similar principles. This research is aimed at exploring the roles, effects, and functions of music as a social medium by investigating Music for Peace Foundation using fieldwork methodology. Through the research, I aim to address one of the central questions of music sociology: how does music mediate the self and the social? Music mediates the self and the social in various ways, and I have focused on some of these aspects in this research.