Repertory preferences of Izmir amateur Turkish classical music choir conductors in the context of Bourdieu's concept of capital.

The transfer and survival of the cultural accumulation of Turkish art music is very important for the Turkish society in terms of the sociological phenomenon that Bourdieu put forward with the conceptualization of cultural capital. Cultural capital is functional in many areas of life. Music choir conducting is one of these fields. It tries to understand the repertoire preferences of amateur traditional Turkish classical music choir conductors in Izmir by making use of Bourdieu's concepts of social route, doxa, cultural capital, habitus. Within the scope of the study, interviews were made with amateur traditional Turkish art music choir conductors, choir members and instrumentalists working in these choirs, and observations were made in rehearsals for concerts and concerts. In addition, concert program booklets of about 30 choirs and repertoire booklets used in the studies were examined. In addition to the field study, a wide literature review was made, and the results obtained in the light of the data obtained from these two channels were evaluated from the perspective of Bourdieu's concepts of cultural capital and habitus. Strategies followed by choir conductors in the field were examined in the axis of Bourdieu's concepts (containment, surveillance and subversion). In addition, in our study, it was determined that while choir conductors were forming their repertoires, economic capital and social capital were also affected as well as cultural capital. Choir conductors' preferences to create their repertoire; their social routes, their habitus, their cultural capital, the habitus of the works and the musical elements that make up the works (the habitus of the tunes and the styles), the habitus and cultural capital of the choir members, the audience, the instrumentalists and, if any, the institutions they are affiliated with, affect the rules established in a field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]