Now it's more comfortable than ever with genre singers, ones with specific, even narrow identities.
At its heart is a tale of those who don't fit neatly anywhere: neither male nor female, American nor Greek, narrator Cal is pitched about by a world demanding conformity to narrow identities.
Çavdar stresses that one of the main achievements of the protest movement was to shatter the narrow identities imposed by state discourse: "Gezi brought down the walls between conservative Muslims and secularists, nationalist Turks and Kurds, Alevis and Sunnis, men and women.
What does narrow identity politics have to do with that?
While most Roman restaurants stick to a narrow identity, it's tough to pigeonhole Taverna Angelica, Piazza Amerigo Capponi, 6, (39) 06-687-4514, which uses typical Italian ingredients in atypical ways.
The single currency was conceived as a force against history's cruel lessons, a financial counterweight to distinctions and divisions that placed narrow identity and self-interest ahead of the broader European vision.
Kurds are captive to the painful memories of repression under Hussein; like the Sunni and Shiite Arabs, who fought a brutal sectarian war, the Kurds, too, cling to a narrow identity, theirs defined by ethnicity, rather than national citizenship.
"Arguing for an inclusive national identity focusing on the common values that unite us rather than one narrow identity which we don't share is not motivated by anti-religious sentiment but by a genuine concern for social solidarity," said Copson.
Despite not having a powerful brand name or being linked to a powerful portal like Yahoo or America Online, Time for Prom shows that small retailers need not get lost in the vast clutter on the Internet if they develop a clear, narrow identity.
This is a challenge that requires a response deeply informed about their identity strategy, but also nimble in showing eagerness to narrow identity gaps with them -- if possible.
Mr Phillips recently warned that Britain was in danger of "sleepwalking into segregation".The need to combat narrow-minded identity politics was much discussed at the CRE conference, as was the fact that the body will be subsumed into a super-quango, the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (see article), next year.
