This article examines the relation between music and the transgenerational
trauma of the Pontic Greeks - the descendants of the 1923 Black Sea
[Karadeniz] refugees. More specifically, the article concerns the 1921
destruction of the Santa locality, in G?m??hane province, and how the memory
of this violence is negotiated in the practice of dialogical and
participatory singing called parakathi or muhabeti. It is demonstrated how
muhabeti enables Pontians to cultivate an empathic postmemory of the 1920s
refugees? Santa trauma and what this might mean for trauma theory in
general.