{"id":1189,"date":"2026-09-15T16:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2026-09-16T17:36:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:36:01","slug":"haciosmanoglu-selma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/haciosmanoglu-selma\/","title":{"rendered":"HACIOSMANOGLU Selma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>From Individuals to Networks: A Prosopographical Reconstruction of Children\u2019s Musical Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic, 1876\u20131946<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the late Ottoman Empire, children\u2019s songs emerged not merely as pedagogical<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">materials but as cultural instruments through which new models of citizenship and social identity were articulated. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, educational reforms increasingly positioned music as a medium through which modern values and collective identities could be communicated to younger generations. Prior to the nineteenth century, musical expressions addressing children largely consisted of lullabies, religious hymns, and patriotic songs intended to cultivate communal values. By the late nineteenth century, children\u2019s songs began to emerge as a distinct musical and pedagogical genre specifically designed to address the intellectual, emotional, and moral development of children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This study examines a curated selection of children\u2019s songs composed between 1876 and 1946, spanning the transition from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early Turkish Republic. The research draws upon a corpus of nearly 2,000 songs compiled from more than one hundred printed sources, including music education manuals and pedagogical publications of the period. The lyrics are analysed using Norman Fairclough\u2019s <em>Critical Discourse Analysis<\/em> framework. The findings demonstrate that children\u2019s songs functioned as instruments of cultural mediation through which political ideals, moral values, and models of modern citizenship were communicated. By examining how childhood, nationhood, and social ideals were articulated in these texts, the study highlights the role of musical repertoire in shaping cultural discourse during a transformative period in Turkish history and how this repertoire served as a sonic vehicle for modernization and nation-building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Selma Haciosmanoglu is a scholar of Turkish music and cultural history. She completed her PhD with a dissertation titled <em>Discourse Analysis of Children\u2019s Songs from the Late<\/em> <em>Ottoman Period to the Early Republican Era (1876\u20131946)<\/em>. Her research focuses on them intersections of music, education, ideology, and cultural transformation in late Ottoman and early Republican society. She currently teaches Turkish music and works on interdisciplinary projects connecting music, cultural studies, and media production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E-mail: selmahaciosmanoglu@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Individuals to Networks: A Prosopographical Reconstruction of Children\u2019s Musical Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic, 1876\u20131946 In the late Ottoman Empire, children\u2019s songs emerged not merely as pedagogical materials but as cultural instruments through which new models of citizenship and social identity were articulated. During the late nineteenth and early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-participants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}