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The World of Aziza A.: Third Space in Identities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Yeşim Burul
Yeşim Burul*
Affiliation:
Department of Communication, Istanbul Bilgi Universityand PhD candidate, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
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Every summer Wantijpark in Dordrecht, a small town in the western Netherlands, hosts a World Music festival called “Rainbowpark.” The performers of the 2002 season included Bun Sani from Surinam/The Netherlands, Ghalia Benali & Timnaa from Tunisia/ Belgium, Bayuba Cante from Cuba and Los de Abajo from Mexico. But the biggest star of the festival-that is, whose name was highlighted with the largest fonts in the posters and flyers-was Aziza A., presented as an artist from Turkey. In fact, this multi-faceted artist, whose real name is Alev Yıldırım, was born in Berlin in 1971 and has lived ever since. Her parents had lived in Germany as guest workers for 31 years and then returned to Turkey in 1999, but Aziza had stayed on in Berlin, which she now calls her home. I met her during the “Karneval der Kulturen” in Berlin (the Carnival of Cultures, which took place a month before the Rainbow festival) where she performed on the night of the grand parade.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 29: Special Issue: Forty Years of Turkish Migration to Germany , Spring-Fall 2003 , pp. 209 - 228
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