Turkish Studies - Social Sciences eISSN: 2667-5617 INTERNATIONAL BALKAN UNIVERSITY www.turkishstudies.net/social Research Article / Araştırma Makalesi Sponsored by IBU Cite as/ Atıf: Oral, M. (2020). Anadolu âşık müziği ve edebiyatında Atatürk, Turkish Studies - Social, 15(3), 1337- 1362. https://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.42006 Received/Geliş: 04 March/Mart 2020 Checked by plagiarism software Accepted/Kabul: 25 April/Nisan 2020 Published/Yayın: 30 April/Nisan 2020 Copyright © INTAC LTD, Turkey CC BY-NC 4.0 Anadolu Âşık Müziği ve Edebiyatında Atatürk Atatürk in Anatolian Minstrel Music And Literature Makbule Oral * Abstract: This study aims at identifying and presenting the recorded/audio productions by minstrels, who are the representatives of minstrel tradition who sing poems accompanied by music on all issues in social, economic, political, belief, etc. fields, which depicts personal characteristics and revolutions of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the savior of the homeland and founder of the republic. Preliminary study indicated that the works and publications with the theme of Atatürk contain minstrel poems, but do not include minstrel music that is another existential elements of the minstrel tradition. For this reason, in this study, twenty-nine minstrel production with Atatürk theme have been identified, notated and their musical and literary structures have been shown. For the study, archive and literature surveys were conducted, and the information and musical data obtained were descriptively analyzed with content and musical analysis methods and the results were revealed in the findings. minstrels' perception of Atatürk was evaluated over the musical -literary structure of the works covered by the study. After all, it has been revealed that minstrels who play and sing in all issues of concern to the society, wrote their great love and loyalty to the homeland, nation and Atatürk the savior in the form of "Güzelleme" (praise), "Koçaklama" (epical folk poem) and "Ağıt" (mourning) and their critical feelings for those who defame Atatürk and his revolutions in the form of "Taşlama" (lampoonery), and that composed their music in the form of "Kırık Hava" (rhythmic melody), "Uzun Hava" (rhythymless melody) and "Ağıt", "Maya" and "Deyiş" where both forms are used together. In Anatolian minstrel tradition, abolition of caliphate, hat and letter revolutions and particularly republic, democracy and laicism principles of Atatürk -who was the foremost leader that has been the subject of minstrel productions-, are emphasized in the exemplary productions by minstrel. Structured Abstract: Minstrels who read poems accompanied by saz in the Minstrel tradition reflect people's feelings and thoughts on one hand, and entertain, inform, make people think and raise awareness on the other. Minstrels also in this way take a note in the history of events and facts that people and the world are concerned with. Within this context, they addressed statesmen in the socio-political sense in their poems and folk songs, and praised and criticized their actions. Accepted as a great leader not only in Anatolia, but also in the entire world thanks to what he has done for the homeland and nation, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is the foremost leader that minstrel has addressed the most in these productions, thanks to both his personality and revolutions. Atatürk was mentioned as an exemplary statesman who is praised with a great love and gratitude in minstrels' poems and folk songs, and has always been kept alive since the past to our day. * Dr. Öğr. Üyesi, İstanbul Üniversitesi Devlet Konservatuarı, Müzik Bölümü Asst. Prof. Dr., Istanbul University, Conservatoire, Department of Music 0000-0001-9193-7533 makbuleoral1@hotmail.com