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On Collecting Folk Songs in Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

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First of all I must tell you which part of the country we wanted to explore. We went to Southern Anatolia, near the Syrian border, where the Yürüks have their winter camps. The Yürüks are a nomadic tribe who camp in the hilly parts of the South during winter and live high up in the Taurus mountain in summer. We assumed that a tribe that has still kept this ancestral form of life would very likely have preserved many of their old musical customs. That is why we cast our eyes on their land when setting out on our first journey.

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