Kenan Behzat Sharpe
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@KeymanMTS Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern U. 🌆 / book on Anatolian Rock in progress 🎸 / sometimes journalist / tweets on art & culture in Turkey 📝
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Some huge news. After years in Istanbul, I'm moving to Chicago.
It's an honor to be a Keyman Postdoctoral Fellow at the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern University for 2023-2025.
I'm thrilled to be a part of the academic community at
@BuffettInst
&
@KeymanMTS
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The price of a Metallica ticket in 2008 was cheaper than a block of cheese is today
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BEST OF TURKISH MUSIC 2023 🧵
The year is nearly over. The music magazines mags gave their top picks, Spotify got unwrapped, & now it's time for our 5th annual (!) list of songs from Turkey.
Here are my mini-reviews & a playlist of my 50 favorite songs + a few extra for luck.
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Ne virüsten korkmak ayıp
Ne de düşünmek virüsü
- Korona Hikmet
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My mantı might not be tiny or thin enough, but it feels so good to pass on my favorite comfort food from childhood to my even more Americanized niece 🥟
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BEST OF TURKISH MUSIC 2021🧵
The year is nearly over. The music mags gave their top 100s, Spotify unwrapped, now it's time for my annual round-up.
What a year! Music was one of a few sources of hope. So here are my mini-reviews + a playlist of songs that kept us sane. [1/40]
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BEST OF TURKISH MUSIC 2022🧵
The year is nearly over. The music mags gave their top picks, Spotify got unwrapped, and now it's time for our semi-traditional list. It's been 4 years! 2019, 2020, 2021, & now 2022.
Here are my mini-reviews + a playlist of my 50 favorite songs.
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This really is one of the greatest moments in the history of the Turkish internet.
Kanye West wondering why all the first comments on his Instagram posts about his divorce are long debates written in "this language"
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Ezhel keeps it legit in his award speech by speaking out boldly against censorship in the arts, acknowledging his collaborators, and honoring his roots in the Turkish rap underground
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#FreeEzhel
What’s it like to get stoned under Turkey's state of emergency? Meet Ezhel, the Turkish rapper just arrested for "promoting drug use" among the youth. But pot isn't the only reason the gov threatens him w/ 5 years in prison. Who is
@ezhel06
& what does he represent?
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As I finish up my Anadolu Rock book this summer, I've been planning on launching a podcast. Is there any interest in an English-language podcast on the birth of "Turkish psychedelic rock" and its relationship to the protest movements of Turkey & the world's 1960s-1970s? 🎤🎸🎧
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Today is an exciting today for me because I'm starting a postdoc research grant with the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) supported by the NEH. I'll be doing research for my book “Rockers and Radicals in Anatolia: Turkish Psychedelic Music and the Global 1960s.”
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Why do all the Istanbul hipsters wear shorts with tall socks now? Go to Kadıköy and look around. It's like a uniform
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Bu Fıstık İsmet’i aklama çabası nedir? Son 4 bölüm ona çok fazla odaklanıyor. Dizinin en saçma ve gereksiz karakteri. “Kadınlara şiddet uyguluyorum ama look at me I’m a sad boy 🥃🚬😢 Seni üzerim kızım ama seyirci bana acısın.”
#Kul
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The slogan “We are taking Beyoğlu back” implicitly suggests that Arabs & refugees are occupiers
It also leaves Beyoğlu's true owners—Greeks, Jews, Armenians, & the LGBT people who have long sheltered there—out of the conversation
#beyo
ğlunugerialıyoruz
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So everyone is rightly discussing megastar Tarkan's grand return.
According to some Geççek is an anthem of the opposition. According to others, it's not political enough.
But what if we analyze the song/video on its own merits? 🧵
#geccekgeccek
#Gitcek
#TarkanYaln
ızDeğildir
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Crossed over to Kadıköy today. Cute, clean, hip. Ate a bagel, could have been in Brooklyn. On the way back home, stopped in Beyoğlu for a beer. Gritty, gorgeous, dodgy. Home. Beyoğlu's been hit but it's not down. It's been gentrified/commercialized in the worst way, but lives 🖤
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One of my favorite new voices is Turkish rap is
@itslilzey
She only has a few, hard-hitting tracks out so far, but she has been preparing herself for an illustrious career with a journey spanning İzmir and Boston, Atlanta and Şanlıurfa
@emimusicturkey
@RedKeysMusic
Challenging Turkish rap’s machismo with Lil Zey – Duvar English
@kenan_sharpe
Kenan Behzat Sharpe writes
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Fatma Girik has died: a legendary actress from the golden age of Turkish cinema, Yeşilçam. She was also social-democrat mayor of İstanbul district Şişli from 1989-1994. Here you can see her marching on May Day, 1978 with other "cinema laborers."
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In more exciting news, I’m writing a weekly arts/culture column for
@DuvarEnglish
! Here’s my first one, where I tie together some thoughts on the state of Turkish music in the world.
@GayeSuAkyol
@_Jakuzi_
@shepastaway
@Palmiyeler_
@altingunband
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Ezhel just followed me on Instagram. Excuse while I have a fanboy moment 😵
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Amsterdam-based, Turkish psychedelic revivalist band Altın Gün has been nominated for a Grammy! In the past, Kardeş Türküler and Arto Tunçboyacıyan, and jazz pianist Kerem Görsev have been nominees. This is (I believe) the first Turkish-language rock band on the list.
We are officially nominated for a Recording Academy / GRAMMYs with GECE for best world music album of the year 🤯
@RecordingAcad
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2020 BEST OF TURKISH MUSIC [thread]
The year is almost over. The music mags have given their top 100s, we had
#SpotifyWrapped
, now it's time for my little round-up. It's been a crap year but a good year for music, so here are mini-reviews + a playlist of songs that defined 2020!
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Turkey’s first all-woman “orchestra” (rock band, really) here covering “Riders on the Storm” by The Doors on state TV in the ‘70s. The clip also includes the members looking back on the period from today. Some of these old TRT programs are simply müthiş...Window onto a lost world
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I've only been back in Turkey a month this time, so while speaking Turkish I still find myself sometimes unconsciously saying "like" as a pause between words. Yet I know that in another month, I'll be speaking in English & again be dropping in "hani" or "efendime söyleyeyim" or..
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There's a great piece waiting to be written on pop stars and politics in Turkey
💠Tarkan better at opposition politics than the CHP
💠 Conservatives trying to drag Gülşen for wearing "underwear" on stage + her epic response
💠Fake outrage over Sezen Aksu lyrics about Adam and Eve
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2019 BEST OF TURKISH MUSIC LIST
It's almost the end of the year. The music mags have given their top 100s, we had
#SpotifyWrapped
, now it's time for my little round-up. It's been a good year for music, so here are mini-reviews of some of albums & songs that made 2019, in my eyes.
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Hi, Twitterverse. I'm looking to pick up some extra work. Keep me in mind if you hear of proofreading, editing (esp. book manuscripts, academic articles, dissertations), indexing, or TR-ENG translation jobs. Thanks!
(Unrelated photograph from my birthday in Maçka Parkı last week)
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Turkey's first all-woman heavy metal band Volvox (featuring Şebnem Ferah and Özlem Tekin)
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Melike Şahin's face in Times Square (!) for Spotify's playlist "Equal/women at full volume." Our diva bebe is on the road to world domination 🎤
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What if I told you all I have some good news?
Rock 'n' Roll Anatolia, my podcast on Turkish psychedelic rock and the social movements of the 1960s, is going to launch later this fall.
Follow
@rocknrollanatol
for updates.
Art and graphics by the amazing
@clara_artdesign
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Netflix's Turkish translators rendered "straight love" as "non-perverted love." What will you do about homophobia in your subtitles?
@netflixturkiye
@netflix
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I'm excited to have an article on poetry/rock/cinema in the Turkish Historical Review's special issue on the 1960s in Turkey. Our fearless editor was Nikos Christofis and the issue has a preface by Erik-Jan Zürcher.
Feel free to DM me if you want a copy!
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Chicago folks: come join us for a conversation tomorrow on the history and global influence Turkish television series hosted by the Northwestern University Turkish Language Program.
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The strike wave continues to spread! After the delivery drivers at several companies, workers at the Migros grocery warehouse in Esenyurt, Istanbul are on strike against a 8% "poverty raise" that isn't anywhere close to matching inflation.
#MigrosDepoAyakta
Migros Esenyurt Deposu işçileri, %8'lik sefalet zammına karşı iş bırakarak direnişe geçti.
Ülkenin dört bir yanında, patronların cebine göz diktiği emekçilerin yanındayız. İşçileri yalnız bırakmayacağız.
#MigrosDepoAyakta
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Famous actor Beren Saat weighs in on the latest Netflix debacle in Turkey and the absurd question of whether LGBTI+ content "encourages homosexuality": "Even if you shut down Netflix, gay people will exist and we will continue to accept them, love them, and tell their stories."
Beren Saat: “Netflix’i kapatsanız da eşcinseller var ve bizler, kabul edeceğiz, seveceğiz, hikayelerini anlatacağız.”
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Attention: Boğaziçi University undergrads
I'm teaching a WLL summer class on U.S. literature in the 1960s. We'll be reading writers like Allen Ginsberg, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Ursula Le Guin, Tom Wolfe, Sonia Sanchez, & more. Plus listening to '60s rock and watching films!
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Ahmadinejad and Nevşin Mengü calling each other "dude." The complete globalization of
#CaliforniaEnglish
😎
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Bu haftaki köşe yazımda, gelecek vaadeden genç bir rapçinin yeni albümünü ele alacaktım. Sonra bir baktım, akranları sokakta dövülürken ve nezarethanelerde bekletilirken kendi reklamını yapan influencer'larin müziğini konuşmaya ne benim ne de okuyucularımın kaybedecek vakti var
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I've written about rapper
@itslilzey
in depth, so I won't repeat everything here. Suffice it so say that "Zor" is one of the most ambitious concept song/videos of the year. Keep your eye on her.
One of my favorite new voices is Turkish rap is
@itslilzey
She only has a few, hard-hitting tracks out so far, but she has been preparing herself for an illustrious career with a journey spanning İzmir and Boston, Atlanta and Şanlıurfa
@emimusicturkey
@RedKeysMusic
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Can pop culture have any lasting affect on politics? The brilliant
@LiselHintz
and I wrote a piece tackling this question. The occasion? Tarkan's Geççek, of course.
It's my first time in the
@washingtonpost
, so please read and share!
#geccekgeccek
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Now is the time for everyone who cares about human rights & freedoms in Turkey to declare--no, scream--their unwavering support for LGBTQ+ people. This community (especially trans folks) has become a scapegoat, used to garner votes & divide marginalized groups. Don't fall for it.
Turkey says it withdrew from Istanbul Convention over 'attempts to normalize homosexuality'
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The Turkish dark-wave band She Past Away is so big in Mexico they're able to pull off a 7-city tour across the country
Guadalajara y Tijuana se suman a la gira por México 2021. Nos vemos muy pronto!
Boletos e información:
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I’m excited to be presenting my research this Thursday at the University of Chicago! Thanks to everyone at the Middle East History and Theory Workshop and the Turkish Circle for organizing this, especially
@TheoKnights
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Today I submitted my dissertation and filed for the PhD! Thanks to all the amazing friends & colleagues who encouraged, inspired, and supported me 🥰
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The pazar in Ayvalık is springing with life, from fresh artichokes, peas, and berries to wild greens and herbs of various kinds (karahindiba, ısırgan otu, and şevketi bostan or akkız as it’s known here).
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Monolingual people always ask if you think in your 2nd language, as if it’s the main marker of fluency. But if you really want to be fluent, I recommend getting entangled in complex emotional relationships so you can carry on imaginary arguments in your 2nd language in your head
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Here's the playlist link. Read along as you listen.
The songs range from indie to punk to R&B, rap, electro, & pop.
I spent hooours carefully sequenced the playlist for your listening pleasure, so listen from start to finish for the smoothest flow.
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I'd like to declare
@sahmeliksah
person of the year. Her first full-length album "Merhem" defined 2021 with its lush combination of sad girl torch songs, arabesk, electronica, surf rock, and pop anthems. She went from indie obscurity to being Turkey's "diva bebe," a rare uniter.
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Who is going to write the piece on why Stefan Zweig is so big* in Turkey? He is barely known, even among educated readers, in the U.S.
*so big = within the part of the population that actively reads
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I wrote about
#Susamam
and Ezhel’s song
#Olay
, the government’s response to these outspoken songs, and the shifting place of rap in Turkey for
@AlMonitor
. Thanks to
@LiselHintz
for her comments.
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There are some gems in this NYT write-up on Gaye Su Akyol, especially on the powerful vagueness of her political lyrics. I’m excited she’s getting this international attention. However, I’m convinced more than ever that the label “psychedelic” obscures more than it clarifies [1]
Gaye Su Akyol has revived a style of music once thought deeply uncool, and she uses it to comment poetically on her country
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On the eve of the elections I spoke to
@memetalialabora
about his hopes for Turkey, his creative agency’s work on the TİP campaign, his life in Wales and his many projects in the UK. Watch the interview on
@medyascope
here:
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An announcement for BOUN students:
I'm teaching a summer class! In "American Poets in the World 1930s" we explore the relationship of poetry & politics, art & revolution.
We start with Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, & Kenneth Rexroth, and then move to Greece, Chile, Turkey
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My
#BirBaskadir
review is on its way! Much (too much?) has been written about the Netflix series in Turkish, but there's little in English about its impact. Meanwhile, I'm thrilled that an academic piece I wrote on Şahsiyet, a superb Turkish show from 2018, is now available [1]
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After a fan’s rainbow flag is confiscated (?!) by a security guard at a concert, the singer of Turkish rock band Dolu Kadehi Ters Tut notices, taps the security guard on the shoulder, takes the flag, and starts dancing with it on stage 👑
aw güvenliği kendini ne sanıyorsa gökkuşağı bayrağını kızların elinden almaya çalışıyor. neyse ki dolu kadehi ters tut'un vokalisti uğurhan özay gelip bayrağı alıyor ve güvenliği göt ediyor. aşırı keyif aldım bu olaydan ✨🧚♀️🌈😍
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In a clear example of spinelessness, popular venue IF immediately bows down to the arbitrarily declared midnight music ban by announcing a silent disco event after 12:00 every weekend. This is how we lose folks
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Here's the Spotify playlist. Feel free to read along as you listen 🎧
The songs range from indie to psych to hyperpop to R&B rap to jazz.
The playlist is sequenced for your listening pleasure, with smooth transitions... Who said the mixtape was dead?
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For those upset, I mean "true owners" quite literally. As everyone knows, Pera was built/populated mainly by Levantines & non-Muslims. It's demography changed when Rums, Armenians, Jews were forcibly expropriated through pogroms (1955), legal discrimination (1964), pop. exchange.
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Interesting article about Kurdish rap in Germany in the Netflix series Skylines.
@rosaburc
comments: “Telling the story of Frankfurt’s hip-hop scene, [director] Yusef has revealed the multifold struggles accompanying Kurds in their homelands and diaspora.“
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Veteran Turkish rocker Taner Öngür (of Moğollar fame) just put out an album that will delight historians of modern Turkey, fans of psychedelic rock, & people generally nostalgic for the mid-20th century. Here's what you need to know about "Asrî Sadâ"
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I haven't been this excited for a book in a long while. Midcentury modernism, Ankara art galleries, gossip columns, Bülent Ecevit's art criticism, the 1950s... It will sit nicely on the shelf next to Begüm Adalet and Nick Danforth's recent books.
#forthcoming
Smith’s book examines landmark works of Turkish modernism along with an innovative array of sources—from gossip columns to economic theory—to reveal the art world as a key site for the articulation of Turkish nationhood at midcentury.
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Today's the 100th anniversary of the Republic of Turkey. On the one hand, you have crowds chanting Erdoğan's name while the president himself watches a naval procession from a mansion of the disgraced final Ottoman sultan who fled his country on a British warship. On the other..
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Who needs a 1,000-word column? My latest piece can also be summarized like this
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The new issue of Elle Turkey centers on the women's movement. "To be a woman, to find yourself, to be an individual, to create: these are already difficult. But now just existing without being murdered, living w/out facing violence...have become critical issues" -
@GayeSuAkyol
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Here's the playlist link. You can read along as you listen.
The songs range from indie to punk to R&B, rap, and leş pop.
The playlist is carefully sequenced for your listening pleasure, so listen from start to finish for the smoothest flow.
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I can't wait to see
@WhiteJennyB
's latest book, a graphic novel centered on a crucial historical period! "A powerful graphic novel that traces Turkey's descent into political violence in the 1970s through the experiences of four students on opposing sides of the conflict"
A new graphic novel: Turkish Kaleidoscope | Princeton University Press
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27 year-old university student Pınar Gültekin was missing for five days. Yesterday she was found dead in a forest in Muğla. This incomprehensible & unforgivable loss is part of a larger pattern of femicide/violence against women in Turkey.
#pinargultekin
#P
ınarGultekin
27 yaşındaydı
5 gündür haber alınamayan 27 yaşındaki Pınar Gültekin‘in cansız bedeni ormanlık alanda bulundu.
Muğla
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Today marks 3 years since the release of rapper Ezhel's debut album Müptezhel. I think we'll look back on this record as a historic milestone in Turkish popular music. It both broke social taboos & catapulted rap back into the mainstream
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I'm excited to announce that I've begun as an assistant editor at
@commune_mag
. It's a project I believe in, run by people I respect. Four beautiful issues of the magazine come out each year, plus articles on the website. Issue 5 is coming soon & includes a piece by me on music..
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Me, an academic: writes articles/conference papers on why "Bir Gün Tek Başına" is an important novel of the 1960s left & an exploration of the conflicting demands of sexual desire and political commitment
Everyone:
Sedat Peker, a mob boss: recommends the novel
Everyone:
Vedat Türkali'nin "Bir Gün Tek Başına" romanı, Sedat Peker'in tavsiyesiyle İdefix en çok satanlarda 5. sırada
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Since everyone is remembering folk musician
#As
ıkMahzuniSerif today on the 17th anniversary of his death, I thought I would chime in with some lesser known or forgotten aspects of his legacy. A short thread on Aşık Mahzuni:
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I'm very excited that some research I've been working on for a long time is finally out in the world.
"Combined and Uneven Modernism: Turkey's İkinci Yeni Poets" is in a 2-volume special issue on Peripheral Modernism in Dibur.
Thanks to the editors!
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Yeni
@medyascope
programımın ilk bölümü yayında!
Videoyu YouTube'da beğenerek ve paylaşarak desteğinizi gösterebilirsiniz.
Ama nedir bu Pop & Politics?
Her hafta bir sanatçı, müzisyen, yönetmen, yazar, oyuncu, vs. programa konuk oluyor. [1] 🧵
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The incredible Turkish novelist Sevgi Soysal died on this day, 43 years ago. She was a rebel, lover of life, feminist, and Marxist.
@Amy_Spangler
has translated her wonderful "Noontime in Yenişehir." Here's a taste of "Dawn," translated by
@al_mutaghatris
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Anyone following the Turkish elections needs to listen to this song. On the surface, there's nothing directly political. Plausible deniability. But if you read a little between the lines, it's clear who the sultans are who "embrace their thrones" while "impeding our songs." [1/2]
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@feridehilalakn
is one of the most interesting names in Turkish pop these days. She has some of the futuristic image of Lady Gaga mixed with the emotive vocals of Sıla. She's been busy cementing her pop empire in 2020 with a string of hits, the best of which is "Yok Yok."
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A piece on yesterday’s amazing Twitter outpouring, when people showed the absurdity of everyday misogynist speech in Turkey by flipping common phrases around. “A man wearing shorts in public is like a house without curtains: either for rent or for sale.”
"Şişman erkekler tayt giymesin bi zahmet. Gözümüz kanıyor."
Cinsiyet söylemlere karşı sosyal medyada
#erkekyerinibilsin
kampanyasını başlatan
@ruqinq
'le konuştuk:
"En güzel tepki alay ederek verilebilir diye düşündüm"
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I wrote about Gaye Su Akyol's new music video, International Women's Day in Istanbul, and feminist utopianism for
@BlindFieldJourn
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It turns out Roger Waters was one step ahead of us when accepting the invitation for an official event hosted by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism
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Ezhel released his latest album about 36 hours ago. I'll share my initial impressions in this mini-review/thread.
tl;dr: This album is going to be HUGE, but it's a little uneven. Despite some doubts, I'm still hopeful for great things to come from Ezhel.
Okay, here we go...
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We finally have the first trailer for the exciting adaptation of the book Midnight at the Pera Palas by
@charleskingdc
. It features
@HazalKaya110
in the lead role and brings in an interesting time-travel dimension as a woman travels to 1919 from today's Turkey.
Pera Palas’a rezervasyon yaptırmak istiyorum, 1919 manzaralı oda müsait mi?
#PeraPalastaGeceYar
ısı 3 Mart’ta sadece Netflix’te.
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A great piece on Netflix's balancing act in Turkey by
@laurapitel
, with commentary by
@bilgeyesil1
.
"Turkey is a complicated operating environment for Netflix. Though it has at times bowed to censorship, it has also pushed boundaries."
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It would be really great if international music magazines would use their platform to raise awareness about the terrible
#earthquakeinturkey
and Syria, perhaps even team up with local or diaspora artists for benefits or create playlists. Even just sharing aid links would help.
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Yazımın 2. kısmı yayında:
Beyoğlu’nun dokusu gitgide bozulurken, "Beyoğlu’nu geri alıyoruz" demek bugünlerde popüler. Ancak bir şeyi "geri almaktan" bahsetmeden önce o apartmanlarının ve dükkanlarının en başta kimlerin elinden alındığını sormamız gerekir.
En son bir internet dizisi böyle ses getirdiğinde, geçtiğimiz yılın Kasım ayıydı ve Bir Başkadır Netflix’te gösterime girmişti.
@zeynepguntan
ve Seren Yüce tarafından yönetilen
#Kul
üp dizisinin ilk fragmanı 1 ay önce yayınlandığında, bu son Netflix Türkiye işinin de... [1/9]
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At a time of intense homophobia, beloved musician Mabel Matiz makes a brave statement while receiving his Elle Style award:
"I dedicate this award to the LGBTI+ people of Turkey, who continue to fearlessly shout that they exist and who always inspire me with their courage."
Elle Style Awards ödül töreninde ödül alan Mabel Matiz: "Bu ödülü varlıklarını korkusuzca haykırmaya devam eden ve bu anlamda cesaretleriyle bana her zaman çok büyük ilham olan, Türkiyeli LGBTİ+lara armağan ediyorum"
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I love that the Carrefour in Kurtuluş does this matzo display every Passover. I wasn't feeling very festive, but after seeing this I had to buy some. Now soup and latkes are on the menu for dinner. Chag Sameach!
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For this week's column, I wrote about Selahattin Demirtaş's new book "Leylan." The fascinating novel moves between politically informed realism, oral storytelling, and even science fiction to ruminate on questions of memory, love, commitment, & happiness.
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Duman soloist Kaan Tangöze quietly released an album of cover songs from legendary folk musician Aşık Mahsuni Şerif this month. After giving Anadolu Rock musicians Selda Bağcan, Cem Karaca, and Edip Akbayram their best songs, Mahzuni continues to inspire
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I walked from Kumkapı to Eminönü along the coast for the first time today. In all my years here somehow I had never thought to take this walk, but it has some of the best views of the city. Forget the Moda rocks, I'll be coming here on summer evenings with cold beers.
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Canımı sıkan bir şeyden bahsetmek istiyorum. Son iki yıldır rap liriklerinde cinsiyetçiliğin çok arttığını gözlemliyorum. Çok sevdiğim bazı rapçileri bile dinleyemez oldum. Yıl olmuş 2023, hala bu kafayı aşamadınız mı? 🧵1/5
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Loving Istanbul hurts. But it is when we want to give up and turn our gaze away that we most need new ways of seeing the city. Director
#ZeynepDadak
’s award-winning documentary Ah Gözel İstanbul shows how to both mourn the destruction & preserve hope in the future.
@mubiturkiye
Can we still love Istanbul despite its destruction? - Kenan Behzat Sharpe writes
@kenan_sharpe
#Turkey
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Last minute, the unelected rector of Middle Eastern Technical University cancelled the annual Spring Festival. The stated reason? Mourning for soldiers in Turkey's operation Northern Syria. The real reason? A grudge against the outspoken students, fear of music and drinking.
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9) “We’re the only nation to get PTSD from our Spotify Wrapped” someone joked on Twitter last week. Well, that’s the effect of hearing “Padişahım” by
@paptircem
now, which was the unofficial opposition anthem during the May elections, only to be promptly deleted from memory...
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Fascinating Netflix documentary on the life and musical career of legendary singer Nükhet Duru. The film also reveals much about Istanbul and its transformations from the 1970s to the present
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