{"product_id":"the-sung-home-narrative-morality-and-the-kurdish-nation-9789004314818","title":"The Sung Home. Narrative, Morality, and the Kurdish Nation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of participating performers List of songs discussed List of figures, maps and tables List of terms and abbreviations Notes on language use and translation Acknowledgements  Introduction\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    i.1 The Sung Home\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  2 i.2 Some notes on the dengbêj art\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t 17 i.3 Folklore, nationalism, and (self-)Orientalism in Turkey\t\t\t\t\t 31 i.4 Narrative and morality\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t 50 i.5 Engaged writing\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t 56 i.6 Chapter outline\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t 58   Part I Songs and Performance\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   Chapter 1. ‘My heart is on fire.’ Singing a Kurdish past.\t\t   \t\t\t\t \t Introduction\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t 63 1.1\tThe kilams and the corpus\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t 69 1.2\tTime, place, and figures 1.3 Women and men\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t 73 1.4 Elite and commoners\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t 86 1.5 Armenians\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t 90 1.6 Local leaders in battle songs\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t 96 1.7 A Kurdish geography: place names and landscape marks\t\t\t\t108 1.8 Kurdish rebels and the Turkish state\t\t\t\t\t\t\t111 1.9 Evdalê Zeynikê: the dengbêj as a figure\t\t\t\t\t\t\t122 Conclusion\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t126 \t\t\t\t Chapter 2. ‘It would disappear in a moment.’ Performing tradition.\t\t\t\t\t131  Introduction\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t132 2.1 The empersonment of Kurdishness\t\t\t\t\t\t\t135 2.2 The Diyarbakır Dengbêj House and its dengbêjs\t\t\t\t\t138 2.3 Performing the village\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t145 2.4 Tribes and battles\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t154 2.5 Rebellions and tribes in performance\t\t\t\t\t\t\t159 Conclusion\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t179   Part II Life stories 183  Chapter 3. ‘A language is a life, and art is a bracelet.’ A landscape of silence. 184 Introduction 185 Life story 1: Politicization of Kurdish language and culture 191 Life story 2: A female dengbêj 201 Life story 3: Landlords and support 214 Life story 4: Armenian voices 222 Life story 5: The religious class 236 Life story 6: Turkish experiences 245 Life story 7: The prohibition on musical instruments 251 Conclusion 262  Part III Conflict and Activism 266  Chapter 4. ‘Decorate your heart with the voice of the dengbêjs.’ Cultural activism. 267 Introduction 268 4.1 Kurdish television in Europe 278 4.2 Zana Güneş and TV activism 285 4.3 The Dengbêj House in Diyarbakır 291 4.4 Zeki Barış and activism in the House 298 4.5 Individual dengbêjs referring to political narratives 302 4.6 Istanbul, a market for dengbêjs 312 Conclusion 320  Chapter 5. Songs crossing borders: musical memories of a family on the run. 324 Introduction 325 5.1 Context and history 331 5.2 Experiencing borders 356 5.3 The embodied experience of singing songs 365 5.4 Resignifying cultural memory and redefining the position of women 367 Conclusion 377  Bibliography 396 General index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210684358999,"sku":"9789004314818","price":178.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sung-home-narrative-morality-and-the-kurdish-nation-9789004314818","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}