{
  "name": "Turkish Music",
  "description": "Traditions developed by the Turkish people.",
  "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/turkish-music/",
  "parent": "West Asian Music",
  "level": "sub-3",
  "children_count": 9,
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "Anatolian Rock",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/anatolian-rock/",
      "description": "Incorporates elements of Turkish Folk Music, particularly traditional instruments such as the bağlama and saz alongside traditional scales and melodies.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Turkish Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Arabesk",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/arabesk/",
      "description": "Arabic-style productions by Turkish musicians, who also draw influence from their native forms, including Turkish Folk Music, Balkan Music, and Byzantine Music.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Turkish Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Fantezi",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/fantezi/",
      "description": "Incorporates influences from Turkish Classical Music and Turkish Folk Music within a more accessible, commercial, and unorthodox context.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Turkish Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kanto",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/kanto/",
      "description": "Songs performed at the Tuluat Theaters of İstanbul in the late 19th century.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Turkish Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ottoman Military Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ottoman-military-music/",
      "description": "Considered the oldest military marching band in the world; instruments used are cymbals, trumpet, kös drum, kettle drum, naqareh, bells, and cevgen.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Turkish Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Turkish Classical Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/turkish-classical-music/",
      "description": "Classical music of Turkey, which uses the makam modal system, with the primary emphasis often being on the singers, who are accompanied by small ensembles.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Turkish Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Turkish Folk Music",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/turkish-folk-music/",
      "description": "Traditional Folk Music of Turkish people combines the distinct cultural heritages and traditions of Anatolian civilisations and former Ottoman territories.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Turkish Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Turkish Pop",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/turkish-pop/",
      "description": "Started in the late 1950s, when Turkish artists started to write their own lyrics to Western popular tunes.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Turkish Music"
    },
    {
      "name": "Özgün Müzik",
      "url": "https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/ozgun-muzik/",
      "description": "Expansion of Turkish Folk Music with overtones from contemporary genres.",
      "level": "sub-4",
      "parent": "Turkish Music"
    }
  ]
}