Songs Sung to Life

In recent years, many books on recent Turkish history have been published. These books naturally look at the present from a methodological perspective. In Songs Sung to Life , Celal Başlangiç "reads" the recent history of Turkey through portraits with a realistic approach. This reading, which has the objectivity required by the profession of journalism, covers Baslangic's articles previously published in Radikal newspaper and Tükenmez magazine. We see that the "beautiful people" whose portraits we read do not compromise on their efforts to make life beautiful. Despite the military coups, detentions, executions they witnessed, and despite spending a lifetime in prisons...

These articles, classified under the titles "Masters-Chiefs-Immortals", "78s-68s and Younger People" and "Colors-Differences-Richness", share with the reader what their titles promise. Instead of examining recent history under big headings, He intends to read Songs Sung to Life in the light of the portraits he focuses on.

Celal Baslangiç's book will be a guide book for us to learn what it costs to live in a country, what difficulties we face, and the singular effects of the events in Turkey, which we sometimes see as a burden to live in, on portraits...



Number of Pages: 272

Year of Printing: 2011


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Everest Publications

First Printing Year: 2011

Number of Pages: 272

Language Turkish