The Voice of the Open Wound - Ahmet Kaya's Songs as a Political Narrative

Ahmet Kaya's life started in Malatya in 1957 and ended in exile in Paris in 2000, a life that included immigration, poverty, revolutionism, prison, albums, concerts, poems, bans, confiscation orders, television programs, awards, fans and fame. . Looking at the reflections of this life in the songs, İlkay Kara deals with the political attitudes in Ahmet Kaya's songs as a kind of "resistance" and "the voice of unhealed wounds", and tries to reveal the world of meaning produced by the social opposition in Turkey over time through Ahmet Kaya's songs. In The Voice of Open Wounds, where Ahmet Kaya's perspectives on the past, present and future are followed through his lyrics, songs reminiscent of the struggle experience in Ahmet Kaya's repertoire; mourning songs; songs with “pain”; songs about denunciation, betrayal and fear; songs of shop assistants, factory girls, laborers; songs of hunger and poverty; love songs; The songs sung to the mountains about the Kurdish problem sit on a theoretical basis. It is a book that looks at the relationship between the social struggle in Turkey and music, and although it is not biographical, it focuses on the background of Ahmet Kaya's life, and there will definitely be songs to sing along while reading.

"A child says to me, 'Ahmet brother, I was listening to Ferdi Özbeğen until today, I didn't know that revolutionaries made such songs. 'Can you let me be a revolutionary?' says. On the one hand, someone else says: 'Brother Ahmet, they call you a communist, I feel very sad.''

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13.5 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2019

Number of Printings: 1st Edition