The Transformation of Arabesk Music within the Framework of the Sociology of Music

Abstract

The link between music and society is a relationship with complex social ties. The internal characteristics of music and the changing and fluid features of society reveal a need to define and evaluate the major problems of the sociology of music. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the major transformation of arabesk music through examining the principles of music sociology and proposing new topic suggestions revealed through major discussions on the agenda of sociological and methodological problems.