Whats Arabesk (Arabesque) Music?
Arabesque (Arabesk) is a Turkish style of music with an Arabic root – that was particularly popular in Turkey during the 1960s-1990s. Like Arabic music itself, its beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It’s melodies are passionate and its subject matter sentimental. Its rhythms were influenced by Arabic-pop music — with a dash of Turkish oriental dance and Ottoman classical music thrown in for good measure. It’s still appreciated in Turkey by older audiences, but its popularity has waned with the younger generation, who have gravitated in the direction of Western music with a Turkish pop-music twist.
