| Summary/Abstract |
This study aims to explore the social history of musicians in Istanbul that lived during the transitional period and experienced the sociopolitical as well as cultural changes from the late Ottoman to the early Republican periods, roughly from the turn of the twentieth century to the early 1930s. Collective biography analysis upon 257 musicians’ life narratives while revealing certain defining characteristics as well as atypical social aspects of musicians would also enable us to understand to what extent musicians adapted to change that they underwent. Thereby, the unconventional approach of this study lies in the analysis of the links between central policies and the ups and downs in musicians’ career trajectories. In other words, this study seeks to identify the ramifications of the wider sociopolitical transformations in the life narratives of musicians.
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