The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Egyptian film song genre · 1930–

Arabesk takes Egyptian film song’s long tarab vocal and studio-orchestra lament and recodes it as Turkish cassette/film popular song.

Influence
Turkish makam tradition · 15th century–

Arabesk takes Turkish makam’s modal path and gazel job and recodes them as a mass lament song for film and cassette.

Influence

Arabesk

genre · 1960–

Also called Turkish arabesk

1960s–80s Turkish popular song of migration and lament: makam-colored vocal, bağlama and strings, a film-and-cassette public (Gencebay, Gürses). It hears Turkish makam for the modal path and gazel job recoded as a mass song, and Egyptian film song for the Cairo tarab-and-orchestra lament recoded on Turkish cassette. Empty extra Given is historically checked: fantezi stays a wing on this node. Turkish folk leftover as a refused catch-all. Arabic maqam leftover as the art-music path, not this commercial hop. Kurdish/Alevi bağlama leftover as neighboring song, not a parent.

Listen

  1. Gurbet Orhan Gencebay (1970s) YouTube
  2. Batsın Bu Dünya Orhan Gencebay (1975) YouTube · Spotify
  3. Arabesk Müslüm Gürses (1980s) YouTube
  4. Gazel / fantezi song İbrahim Tatlıses (1980s) YouTube
  5. Bir Teselli Ver Orhan Gencebay (1970s) YouTube · Spotify

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Egyptian film song → Arabesk

melodytimbre and productionfunction and contextstrength: mediumscholarly consensus1960–1980recordingradio

Mechanism

Arabesk takes Egyptian film song’s long tarab vocal and studio-orchestra lament and recodes it as Turkish cassette/film popular song. Strength medium. Turkish makam leftover as the other modal parent (other edge). Arabic maqam leftover as the art-music path, not this commercial-song hop.

Evidence

1960s–80s Turkish arabesk hearing Cairo radio and cinema (Grove; Stokes via Grove’s arabesk article).

Debate

Whether arabesk simply is Turkish Umm Kulthum. The named Cairo film-radio school is Egyptian; the named migrant Turkish popular school is the recoding.

Mediators

artist: Orhan Gencebay; work: Egyptian cinema and radio song in Turkish cities

Turkish makam → Arabesk

melodyperformance practicefunction and contextstrength: highscholarly consensus1966–1985recordingradio

Mechanism

Arabesk takes Turkish makam’s modal path and gazel job and recodes them as a mass lament song for film and cassette. Strength high. Egyptian film song leftover as a neighboring popular parent not drawn on this edge.

Evidence

Gencebay and Gürses as the named 1970s–80s hinge from art-music makam into arabesk (Grove).

Debate

Whether arabesk simply is makam with strings. The court/Mevlevi path is makam’s; the named migrant popular school is the recoding.

Mediators

artist: Orhan Gencebay; artist: Müslüm Gürses