A folk dance of the popularization; the industry's new product "Kolbastı"

Abstract

In 19th and 20th centuries, as all works of art in the world, local cultural products became metas in culture industry. Kolbastı dance is one of the best examples to show as an industrial product-meta in culture industry. It is inevitable to make a short investigate for its origin as discussing commoditization process of Kolbastı which is only emphasized on its structural/figurative origins and is merely wrote papers on it in terms of popular cultural theories until today.

In this paper Kolbastı which became a phenomenon in popular culture products in our country for a while will be emphasized in terms of social identity, denominational character, gender and relations with industry/market. And it will be maked cultural theoritical investigate on dance.