Kurdish music in Turkey

Kurdish music in Turkey

Musician and journalist Suna Alan gives an account of some of the songs she performs and loves. These are mainly Kurdish music. Suna describes the Dengbej tradition to which much of the music belongs. However, her summary of some songs, and excerpts from the lyrics, also draws on music by Sephardi J...

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Published in:Memory studies Vol. 12; no. 5; pp. 589 - 592
Main Author: Alan, Suna
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01-10-2019
Subjects:
oppression
Ottoman empire
Dengbej
memory
transcultural
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Summary:Musician and journalist Suna Alan gives an account of some of the songs she performs and loves. These are mainly Kurdish music. Suna describes the Dengbej tradition to which much of the music belongs. However, her summary of some songs, and excerpts from the lyrics, also draws on music by Sephardi Jews and the Armenians, other cultural groups who lived, like the Kurds, under the Ottoman Empire. The lyrics and Suna’s contextualization of them in terms of the history they tell and from which they emerge reveal the oppression and suffering of these transcultural groups under the Ottoman Empire, but also their fight against injustice. The music remembers their loves as well as their losses.
ISSN:1750-6980
1750-6999
DOI:10.1177/1750698019870713