A history of flops and a new turn: The Turkish-German music interplay

Abstract

Thanks to Ercan Demirel for his enormous archival support and to Cem Kaya for our valuable discussions. Thanks for hints and support goes to Erbatur Çavusoglu, Volga Coban, Edita Noth and Cevdet Yıldırım as well as to the anonymous peers and their careful, useful and thoughtful work on our text.They needed our manpower/The power to make things happen on the assembly line/ We humans were not interesting/So we remained unknown to you. Cem Karaca, "Es kamen Menschen an" (1984) 1 And the children of these people/Are divided into two worlds/I am Ata and I ask you/Where we belong now. Ata Canani, "Deutsche Freunde" (1984). 2 In the beginning, a few Turkish people visited our concerts. Last year in Germany, for example, only about ten percent of them did. Surprisingly, fifty percent of our visitors here today have Turkish roots. Merve Daşdemir from Altın Gün (2020) 3