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‘The morning of freedom rose up’: Kurdish popular song and the exigencies of cultural survival

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Stephen Blum  and
Amir Hassanpour
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In the final scene of Harold Pinter's play Mountain Language (1988), a guard informs the prisoners that they are now permitted to speak in their own language, at least ‘until further notice’. The guard is an agent of an unnamed state that pursues a policy of linguicide, summarised in an earlier scene by an officer who tells prisoners that ‘Your language no longer exists’. In 1993 the Kurdish Tiyatora Botan (based in Cologne) began to present Pinter's play to audiences of immigrants from Turkey, where Kurds were long called ‘mountain Turks’ (daǧli Türkler) by the government.

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Popular Music , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , October 1996 , pp. 325 - 343
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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