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TED Aliaga College (2020 CyberFair Project ID 8498)
Turkey, Izmir, Izmir
Official Status: Incomplete: under Development
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms

We estimate 16 student(s) from 12 to 13 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Aliaga is an industrial district in the third biggest city in Turkey, Izmir. The people around this district are mainly highly educated and sophisticated even though the area is an industrial zone. TED Aliaga College is a private institution that serves as a branch of TED Schools which is one of the most prestigious education institutions in Turkey.

Project Description: All of Turkey is very rich in terms of traditional folk music. We can find a great deal of diversity in Agean district in terms of music as well. The aim of the project is to find the correlations between these traditional songs and the characteristics of the region. Students will analyze how the music genres specific to the different regions appeared. In the end there will be a website describing the cities in the Agean Region and their music. There will also be music video prepared by the students to show the characteristics of the diversity in this regional music.

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