AUTHENTICITY CONSTRUCTION IN THE PROCESS OF ALEVI/FOLK MUSIC REVIVAL AND ESSENTIALIST-INNOVATIVE TENDENCIES IN BAĞLAMA PERFORMANCE PRACTICE ALEVİ/HALK MÜZİĞİNİN İHYASI SÜRECİNDE OTANTİSİTE İNŞASI VE BAĞLAMA İCRASINDA ÖZCÜ-YENİLİKÇİ EĞİLİMLER

Bağlama performance practice has entered into an important process of change since the 1980s. In the same years, the change experienced by Alevi cultural identity and its important component Alevi music has been the most important dynamic of this change process. This multi-layered movement, referred as the Alevi Music Revival in many studies, has been guided by a core revivalist musicians who are bağlama performers. On the other hand, a folk music revival developed in the 1990s, the basis of which was the Alevi music revival. Therefore, as an intricate process Alevi/Folk music revival has led to the development of a modern/urban representation understanding and new aesthetic preferences in baglama performance. These new choices point to a new authenticity formation. This study focuses on this field of discourse and practice, which started to form in the 1980s in terms of the performance of bağlama, has expanded until today and differs from other authenticities (local / official / market) in Turkey. In conclusion, it was understood that the process of Alevi/Folk Music Revival points to a process of change and construction of an authenticity in terms of bağlama performance practice; and this construction of authenticity has been shaped on the axis of essentialist-innovative tendencies of the musicians. It has been revealed that the mentioned process of change proceeds in three main axes: 1- The revival of the short-necked bağlama and the bağlama tuning, 2- The revival of Şelpe, 3- The revival of the old instruments: Dede sazı, kopuz, iki telli. In addition, it was pointed that in the revival atmosphere the movements towards new authenticities began to take place.
Keywords: Ethnomusicology, Bağlama, Performance Practice, Change, Alevi Music, Revival, Authenticity.