A SUBCULTURE MUSICAL COFFEE HOUSE IN THE ENTERTAINMENT LIFE OF OTTOMAN: AMANE COFFEE HOUSES/ OSMANLI EĞLENCE HAYATINDA BİR ALT KÜLTÜR MÜZİKLİ KAHVEHÂNE: AMANE KAHVEHÂNELERİ

• Main Author: Mehtap Demir
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cyprus International University 2018-01-01
• Series: Folklor/Edebiyat
• Subjects: social classes; subculture; Ottoman; musical coffee house
• Online Access: http://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/1049070929_93-%202.pdf

There were some places in the entertainment life of Ottoman addressing to various cultural levels and nearly all of them were musical in nature. Coffee houses as one of these places differ from the other musical entertainment places because of the fact that it has its own varieties as well. And this causes a reason for the purpose of examination of the coffee houses. While there are many researches which were previously carried out and performed on such coffee houses, it is obviously seen that not much researches were carried out on the Amane Coffee Houses. The main subject of this article is the subcultural characteristics within the social class network of the Amane Coffee Houses as one sort of the musical coffee houses in the entertainment life of Ottoman. The difference of the Amane Coffee Houses among the musical coffee house types and what kind of musical and cultural structure it has became the fundamental problem of this study as well. Starting from the fundamental problem in the article, the penetration of the concept of coffee house as a cultural element is evaluated and assessed as it shows its asset in the entertainment and conversation place identity while formed surrounding the coffee drinking habit in the outside social life in the Ottoman period and then the main peculiar characteristics of the Amane Coffee Houses have been determined and specified properly. The genre,form and performance versions of music in the coffee house culture and also the musical characteristics of the Amane phenomenon are also stated, specified and depicted in details. The musical elements of these musical coffee houses, the identities of the performers and why they have a subculture are in the coverage of this study as well. The data of this study in the frame of the historical method of musicology have been gathered together by means of the literature scanning technique and the resources reaches were analyzed properly and the appropriate data were assessed and evaluated in the end. According to the findings obtained, Amane is determined as a multicultural entertainment place and musical genre based on the subculture