Several factor lead to this development: A growing rate of and importance of migration and international mobility the increase of cross-cultural encounters and experiences the availability of almost all Ottoman-Turkish, Anatolian and global musical styles, instruments and other musical elements via media the opening up of identity discourses. The category of individual used here includes individual musicians, individual music pieces, individual life experiences, identities and approaches to music, individual musical projects, individual CDs and concerts, even individual concepts of music theory, conferences or research projects. Its focus lies on the recent tendency towards an disintegration of musical traditions into internationalism and multiple musical hybrids which might be described as a process of individualization. Individualization of Traditional Music on the Eve of Kemalist Turkey describes the confusing, contradictory and individualized musicscape in Turkey around the turn of the twenty-first century, including its prehistory throughout the twentieth century and sometimes beyond.
