State Market Party Nizamettin Ariç and Kurdish Music

This book tries to determine the "place, world, institutions and subjects" of Kurdish Music within the framework of the concept of "national music". These determinations are handled with the influence of economic policies as well as the political background. The state-market-party equation, the historical conditions of Kurdish politics and the story of Nizamettin Ariç , that is, "How is a Kurdish musician formed?"; “Why is Ariç disconnected from his audience in Turkey? Questions such as these are answered by seeking answers.

What role do the ideas of nationality determined by the French Enlightenment and German Romanticism play in music and in particular in the establishment of the Turkish state? What does this effect, that is, the single language and single culture policy, lead to in Kurdish music?

“The Kurds fell out of modernist national state formations in the early 20th century and became stateless; as well as its spatial and social fragmentation; In addition to topics such as "experience of rural-urban contradictions with capitalistization and the clarification of its class texture...", the book analyzes the impact of the PKK on Kurdish music after 1990 at a conceptual level. According to the author, Kurdish parties and political circles, which create a space and ideology "against" prohibition and assimilation, instrumentalize music.