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The Sung Home tells the story of Kurdish singer-poets (dengbêjs) in Kurdistan in Turkey, who are specialized 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 politicized and moralized cultural and musical production. 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 home.
Price: $62.00
Pages: 436
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World
Publication Date:
01 January 2016
ISBN: 9789004690288
Format: Paperback
"...an excellent bridge between the Kurdish past and the current state of social reorganization, taking place amid the impact of modernity, artfully discerned from the songs, laments, and stories sung/narrated by the dengbêj. It captures some crucial historical, social, political, and cultural dynamics that have shaped the collective Kurdish experience."
Ozan Aksoy in Bustan Vol. 8, No. 2 , 2017.
Wendelmoet Hamelink, Ph.D. (2014) works at the Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo. She is an associate editor of the international peer-reviewed Kurdish Studies Journal. As a cultural anthropologist and gender specialist, the main focus of her work has been on cultural politics, music and conflict, oral history, migration and displacement, gendered experiences of genocide, war and violence, women´s movements, minoritized groups in the nation-state, and visuality.