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TÜRKİYE’DE ERKEN DÖNEM GRAMOFON KAYITLARINDA KADIN ŞARKICILAR

Cilt: 8 Sayı: 4 31 Aralık 2025
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WOMEN SINGERS IN EARLY GRAMOPHONE RECORDINGS IN TURKEY

Abstract

This article examines how sound recording technologies influenced the professionalization experiences of women singers from the late Ottoman period to the early Republican era. In the second half of the nineteenth century, women began to perform vocal music in public entertainment venues such as theaters, coffeehouses, and taverns (meyhane). Because these early examples, the majority of whom were non-Muslim, took place in spaces often associated with immoral pleasures, they were perceived as expressions of a subcultural domain within Ottoman society. With the arrival of the phonograph in the early 1900s, a new auditory experience emerged in which the female voice could exist independently of the body. This “disembodied” mode of performance enabled women to participate in public musical culture without violating gendered moral boundaries. During the early years of the Republic, the notion of the “ideal woman” was redefined, and the Republican vision of the “new woman” was constructed as a symbolic representative of national identity. As a result, from the 1920s onward, Muslim–Turkish women began to gain visibility in a performance and recording world that had previously been dominated by non-Muslim women. However, the sound recording industry, driven largely by commercial interests, remained open to women of diverse backgrounds as long as their voices were profitable. The article argues that the proliferation of sound recordings not only transformed the modes of musical production but also reshaped the social boundaries surrounding the representation of the female voice. Thus, sound recording technology is understood as both a medium and a witness to women’s struggle for audibility in Turkey.

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

Türkçe

Konular

Müzikoloji ve Etnomüzikoloji

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Erken Görünüm Tarihi

10 Aralık 2025

Yayımlanma Tarihi

31 Aralık 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

31 Ekim 2025

Kabul Tarihi

5 Aralık 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 1970 Cilt: 8 Sayı: 4

Kaynak Göster

APA
Yılmaz, Z. (2025). TÜRKİYE’DE ERKEN DÖNEM GRAMOFON KAYITLARINDA KADIN ŞARKICILAR. Yegah Müzikoloji Dergisi, 8(4), 3871-3898. https://doi.org/10.51576/ymd.1814622

 

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