Sung Home. Narrative, Morality, and the Kurdish Nation
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Word Count
115,500 words, Guess
Page Count
462 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-109004314814
- ISBN-139789004314818
- Library of Congress Control Number2016007895
- OCLC Control Number935690233
- Better World Books9789004314818
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL38031056M
Classifications
- LCCGR281.2.K87H36 2016
- LCCGR281.2.K87 H36 2016
Description
This book tells the story of Kurdish singer-poets (dengbejs) in Turkish Kurdistan, who are specialised in the recital singing of historical songs. After a long period of silence, they returned to public life in the 2000s and are presented as guardians of history and culture. Their lyrics, life stories, and live performances offer fascinating insights into cultural practices, local politics and the contingencies of state borders. Decades of oppression have deeply politicised and moralized cultural and musical production and through in-depth ethnographic analysis Hamelink highlights the variety of personal and social narratives within a society in turmoil. Set within the larger global stories of modernity, nationalism, and Orientalism, this study reflects on different ideas about what it means to create a Kurdish homeland.
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