Michael (Mihalis) Kuyucu shared his ‘Müzik Dünyasını Anlamak – Müzik Endüstrisinin Sorunları’ (Understanding the Music World – Issues of the Music Industry) books with public opinion which he has worked on ‘Türk Müzik Endüstrisinin Sorunları’ (Issues of the Turkish Music Industry) research for 2 years.
Michael Kuyucu collected ‘Türk Müzik Endüstrisinin Sorunları’ (Issues of the Turkish Music Industry) in his interviews which he made with musicians, commentators and songwriters who are in music industry for 45 years in Turkey.
In ‘Müzik Dünyasını Anlamak – Müzik Endüstrisinin Sorunları’ (Understanding the Music World – Issues of the Music Industry) books, it tells about the music lives of masters who are in music industry for 45 years with their own perspective. In this research which the problems of music industry were collected, it was aimed to describe the developments of industrial problems to tell about the music world and determined a road map for whom want to understand music world.
In this research, the answers of the below questions takes place in industrial journey of the music which made in Turkey:
- In which proportion the music industry has been affected from the communication technologies? How the history of phonogram affected the music industry?
- What kind of problems did we have in the process of industrialization of music which made in Turkey?
- The problems which happened in Turkish music industry.
Michael Kuyucu who had an interview with 56 performers who are active in Turkish music indusrty, collected the problems of Turkish Music Industry in 7 different category. The book which was published by Zinde Yayınları tells about so comprehensive the whole problems of music industry for the first time in Turkey.
Michael Kuyucu explained about this research which was made for the first time in Turkey, the music industry in Turkey does not complete its industrialization process properly and there are many serious sectoral problems.
The research which showed that Turkish music industry has 7 main problems was collected with the content analysis of interviews which made with 56 populer musicians.
Assistant Professor Doctor Michael Kuyucu who collected the problems of music industry in 7 main titles made an explanation about his research:
“Why did I write this book?” I heartfeltly want to say that this book is not a custom-written paper.
This book showed up at the end of two years research. It was written for reveal something that spoken but not written or written but could not explained information for whom have a passion for music.
This work touches upon an important subject which showed up with the life lesson of music industry masters’: ‘Issues of the Music Industry’.
We revealed the music industry peroblems carefully with interviews which we made with 56 music commentator and musicians. There are sadness, happiness, shortly life itself in these interviews. I wanted to take lessons while we were talking about life.
While we are taking lessons, we should take advantage the experiences of masters. I hope that this work will be a reference for who get ready for say hello this sector, statesmen who wants to make necessary arrangements to make this sector more active and smooth and teaching assistants who educate new talents for this sector.”
The reprint of the research entitled ‘Müzik Dünyasını Anlamak – Müzik Endüstrisinin Sorunları’ (Understanding the Music World – Issues of the Music Industry) was published because the first issue was sold out as soon as it was released.
