Migration, Memory, and Musical Expression. Musical Traditions from Central Eastern Anatolia in Turkey, Berlin, and Paris

• Applicant: Privatdozent Dr. Martin Greve
• Subject Area: Musicology
• Term: from 2020 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438640316

• Final Report Year: 2023

Final Report Abstract

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the field research of the project could not be carried out as planned at any time. Several trips had to be shortened or canceled altogether. In particular, older people in Turkey and Europe were rarely willing to meet for interviews due to fear of infections. In return, the limitations in field research led to more time for literature research and publications. Furthermore, numerous historical music recordings could be purchased, found online, and recorded by the researchers, much more than expected. However, evaluating this material is highly time-consuming and can only partially be concluded in the scope of the present project. The historical private music recordings from eastern Anatolia deserve another encompassing research project. The research discovered a large variety of vocal styles in central eastern Anatolia, which questions the established terminology of folk music in Anatolia. This plethora of musical styles does not correlate with ethnic, national, religious, or other social identities. The performance situation in central eastern Anatolia shows a characteristic atmosphere of private face-to-face gatherings in villages, which differs from musical practices in cities north and south of central eastern Anatolia. The collective experiences of violence during the twentieth century changed music and musical life in several ways. The main factor for the profound changes was migration, urbanization, and the medialisation of music.

Publications

• "'Şiddet İçeren Olaylardan Söz Eden Türküleri...' Muxundi'nin Kılam'ların üzerine Müzikolojik bir Araştırma." In: Şükrü Aslan & Filiz Çelik (eds.): Mazgirt. Istanbul: Ütopya, 2021, 681-697.
  Martin Greve
  
• Musical diversity and the struggle for identities. The Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Turkey, 257-268. Routledge.
  Greve, Martin
  
• "'Kurdish Music'?' Music from Dersim'? Conflicting Identities and the Challenge of Categorization in Central-Eastern Anatolia." In: The World of Music, 2022, 11, 141-167.
  Martin Greve
  
• Die Musik der imaginären Türkei. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
  Greve, Martin
  
• Mankerek. Dorfleben im östlichen Dersim/Tunceli, 1974-1978. Pera Blätter. Bonn: Max Weber Stiftung 2022 / Mankerek. Doğu Dersim'de (Tunceli'de) Köy Hayatı, 1974-1978. Pera Blätter. Bonn: Max Weber Stiftung 2022 (a German and a Turkish edition)
  Martin Greve
  
• Tarihsel Etnomüzikoloji. In: Mehtap Demir, Ulaş Özdemir & Evrim Hikmet (Hrsg.), Etnomüzikoloji. Istanbul: Alfa Yayınları, 2022, 355-375.
  Martin Greve
  
• "Elif Ana". Alevilerin Sesi: Tarihi Yapan Ama Tarihi Yazılmayan Kadınlar, 2023, Nr. 276, S. 4.
  Dilek Kızıldağ
  
• "Koçgiri, Kadın ve Ağıt". Alevilerin Sesi: Kulaklara Fısıldayan Katliam: Zini Gediği. 2023. Nr. 279, S. 9.
  Dilek Kızıldağ
  
• The Fann, a Genre of Oral Poetry in Antiochian Arabic: Remarks on Form and Performance Practice. Journal of Semitic Studies, 69(2), 965-990.
  Ağbaht, Mahmut & Greve, Martin