@article{2013,title={MUSIC CULTURE OF ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION AND POPULAR CULTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY IN TURKEY},abstractNode={Popular culture is a mass culture which develops with the culture industry. It is more is more interesting to explore the benefits to the community rather considering it as an art form. Cultural erosion in which strong structures are suppressed and the weak structures disappear are not significant. Popular culture is directed by the directors who were educated with advanced and intensified techniques; and who do not have economic concerns. Popular culture appeared in Turkey and began to show its impact with the westernization movements in music. The closure of places of workship, the tekke and zaviye, where religious music was played, the repressive and insulting attitutudes towards the public and Ottoman classical music and westernization policies created an emptiness and obscurity in the musical background of the Turkish people. As a result, the work of the culture industry, which was equipped with advanced administration and marketing techniques, became easier. This period should be called the era of culture industry. It can be said that this era was highly influenced by the spread of the connection to the internet in every house. From the sale of millions of popular music albums in the past today sales do not reach even half million. The culture industry now has control over radio and TV broadcasts which were common communication tools in the old culture industry periods, so it can be said that audiences are manipulated via these communication tools. However, the expansion of the internet has created an environment where audiences have the choice. Although popular culture provided certain technical advancements, it also caused corruption in music. In this paper, we will examine the factors that have affected the development of oriental music in relation to religious music; we will discuss today’s popular culture elements and the definition of popular culture in the 21st century. },author={Fikri SOYSAL},year={2013},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}