Hakkâri/Colemêrg : Travels to the Eastern Taurus (1958, 1965)

In 1958 and again in 1965, the German ethnomusicologist Dieter Christensen and his wife, Nerthus Christensen, travelled to Hakkâri for field research. Their material became the basis for numerous academic articles. Despite an evident orientalist approach and, as we know today, the cruel personal misuse of his high position, Dieter Christensen dominated the Kurdish music field within international ethnomusicology for over fifty years. The present volume is an edition of a personal travelogue which Christensen could not accomplish before he died in 2017. It includes photos of the couple depicting Kurdish life before the arrival of electricity, television, phones, cars and modern wedding bands.