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The sung home : narrative, morality, and the Kurdish nation
- Title
- The sung home : narrative, morality, and the Kurdish nation / by Wendelmoet Hamelink.
- Author
- Hamelink, Wendelmoet
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- xxv, 435 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World ; 3
- Uniform Title
- Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World ; 3.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Folklore.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-428) and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- List of figures -- List of participating performers -- List of songs discussed -- Corpus of recorded songs -- List of terms and abbreviations -- Notes on language use and translation -- Introduction -- 1. The sung home -- 2. Some notes on the dengbêj art -- 3. Folklore, nationalism and (self- )orientalism in Turkey -- 4. Narrative and morality -- 5. Engaged writing -- 6. Chapter outline.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-9394
- ISBN
- 9789004314818
- 9004314814
- LCCN
- 2016007895
- OCLC
- 935690233
- Author
- Hamelink, Wendelmoet, author.
- Title
- The sung home : narrative, morality, and the Kurdish nation / by Wendelmoet Hamelink.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World ; 3Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World ; 3.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-428) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Hamelink, Wendelmoet, author. Sung home. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004314825 (DLC) 2016009120
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-9394