Lamentations, Tears and Miracles – Loss and Nostalgia in the Music of Dersim
Elbphilharmonie PLUS / Lecture / Festival »Kurdistan«
Dersim and its music
The small, inaccessible mountain region of Dersim, located 800 kilometres east of Ankara, occupies a special position in Eastern Anatolia in many respects. This also applies to the music from Dersim, which Martin Greve has been studying for many years. In his lecture in German, he focuses especially on its religious significance and addresses the loss of traditions since the traumatic years of 1937 and 1938, when thousands of Alevis living there were killed in the course of a large Turkish military operation. He talks about the influences of urbanisation, migration and medialisation in Dersim and finally about the »Dersim nostalgia« that emerged from the 1990s onwards, especially in the Kurdish diaspora.
Please note: this event takes place in German.
Martin Greve has been researching music in Turkey and the Turkish diaspora in Europe for 30 years. He has taught ethnomusicology, Turkish music and intercultural competence at various universities and music colleges in Germany, Switzerland and Turkey. From 2011 to 2018, he was responsible for the research field of music in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey at the Orient Institute Istanbul. From 2020 to the beginning of 2023, he will lead the research project »Music, Migration and Musical Expression«, which deals with music in the greater Dersim area.
Performers
Martin Greve Vortrag
Programme
Lamentations, Tears and Miracles – Loss and Nostalgia in the Music of Dersim
Festival
Kurdistan