THE PHENOMENA OF WOMEN ON THE TONGUE OF MINSTRELS: THE SAMPLE OF YOKSUL DERVIS
HALK ÂŞIKLARININ DİLİNDEN KADIN OLGUSU: YOKSUL DERVİŞ ÖRNEĞİ

Author : Serenat İSTANBULLU
Number of pages : 158-167

Abstract

Yoksul Dervis is known as a minstrel who has a strong improvisation , is able to play the bağlama and has written nearly 4000 couplets. Besides folk poems, sagas, requiems and guzellemes (a folk lyric in praise to someone or something), he also has a wide range of poems such as love and longing poems and poems on science, education, national and cultural festivals, women, society and human rights. He participated in panels, symposiums and conferences. Tens of his poems have been published in poem anthology, magazine, newspaper and books. He has taken awards at minstrels festival, poems event and festivals and more than 150 of his poems have been translated into French. The poems and views of Yoksul Derviş, who has built his philosophy by being inspired by women in a multicultural community and grown up with love, tolerance and peaceful feelings, on women and women rights are the subject of this study. In this study, Yoksul Derviş’s poems which are about women have been studied and his views regarding the subject have been assessed through a semi-constructed interview.

Keywords

Woman, Minstrel, Yoksul Dervis, Public Culture, Musicology

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