Reconsidering “Anadolu Pop”

Abstract

This article is an attempt to place and analyze the multifaceted case of “Anadolu Pop,” a musical movement that originated in Turkey during late 1960s and faded away by the late 1970s. Coinciding with the folk revival and later the psychedelia movements in Western popular music, this first significant movement in the history of Turkish rock music brought together various rock music styles and the folk music of Anatolia. This fusion would also be legitimized by the ideological tendencies that were embedded within the originating ideals of the Turkish Revolution of 1920s. Such inner dynamics would bring along their own complexities.