BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF GRADUATE THESES ON MUSIC CULTURE İN TÜRKİYE

As a result of cultural influence, music has expanded with certain tools with the interaction of societies. In this context, there are many postgraduate studies on music-related culture. Examination of postgraduate theses made in Turkey from this archive music culture field. This research was carried out in accordance with the document analysis technique, which is one of the qualitative research types. It has been decided to conduct bibliometric analysis in order to determine the numerical analysis of publications produced by people or structures in a region, in a certain period and in a certain region. The theses selected for analysis are between the years 2002-2022. These theses were obtained by scanning “Music, Music Culture, Culture keywords” from the National Thesis Data Bank of the Higher Education Institution. A total of 104 master's, 32 doctorate and 2 art proficiency theses were selected. Content analysis technique was used in the analysis of the data. In the analysis of data; In the content analysis method, the themes were classified and coded according to their subjects, and in the descriptive analysis method, frequencies and percentages were indicated by showing them with tables and graphics. As a result of the research regarding the examination of theses; bibliometric analysis was performed according to academic degree, publication year, publication type, institution, method, university and subject distribution. The majority of research methods and techniques used in research are qualitative studies and due diligence.