‘Sulukule is the gun and we are its bullets': Urban renewal and Romani identity in Istanbul

Schoon, Danielle V.

doi:10.1080/13604813.2014.962885

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“…Unlike Pretty Loud, other Balkan rap groups have arisen in a grassroots manner, for example, Gypsy Mafia, which formed in Serbia and migrated to Austria, (Banić-Grubišić, interview, 12 January 2021). Schoon (2014) writes about rap in Istanbul Romani neighborhoods emerging in times of crisis. In North Macedonia, Šutka Roma Rap raps in Romani about the hard life in the sprawling Romani neighborhood of Šutka.…”

Section: Pretty Loud: Pioneering Female Romani Rapmentioning

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Female Balkan Romani Singers: Charting Innovative Performance Paths

Silverman¹

2023

Musik Und Klangkultur

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This chapter unpacks the intersectional dimensions of the innovative paths crafted by female Romani performers. Focusing on three case studies from Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Serbia, I explore how vocalists from three different generations challenged, resisted or reframed the historical stereotype of Romani women as dangerous, exotic, emotional, and sexual. Not only is the "Gypsy seductress" an iconic figure in literature, folklore and visual culture, but also "Gypsy sexuality and emotion" is often precisely located in the female voice and the body. How did these women negotiate these discursive challenges to establish their individual artistry and their signature genres? How did they overcome the patriarchal structures of their families and communities to carve out creative space in the public sphere while becoming economically independent? My analysis intertwines issues of gender, ethnicity, race, and representation. Nadka Petrova's life history illustrates how a Bulgarian wedding singer born from humble origins during late socialism achieved superb technical mastery while carving out independence in a competitive genre. Macedonian superstar Esma Redžepova, born during World War II, is perhaps the most famous Romani singer in the world. As she bridged the musical worlds of Roma and non-Roma to attract a transnational Balkan audience, her iconic image and sound drew on historical stereotypes, but she re-fashioned them as respectable. Pretty Loud (Serbia) recently emerged as the first Romani female rap band. Their songs expose racism against Roma as well as critique sexism within their communities.

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Section: Pretty Loud: Pioneering Female Romani Rapmentioning

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Female Balkan Romani Singers: Charting Innovative Performance Paths

Silverman¹

2023

Musik Und Klangkultur

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Women's Leadership in Music

2023

Musik Und Klangkultur

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Various modes of women's contemporary cultural, social and political leadership can be found in music. Informed by different histories and culturally bound social mores but also by a comparative perspective, the contributors of this volume ask what can be considered leadership in culture from women's point of view. They deconstruct the notion of leadership as corporative and career-related modes of success by showing how women's agency, power and negotiation in and through music can and should be considered as empowering, transformative and role-modeling. By interweaving several disciplinary perspectives - from ethnomusicology, musicology and cultural management to sociology and anthropology - this volume aims to substantially contribute to the study of women's leadership.

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Residential Segregation in a Highly Unequal Society: Istanbul in the 2000s

Işık¹

2021

The Urban Book Series

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Contrary to trends in many European countries, income inequality in Turkey, measured by the Gini coefficient, has declined between 1994 and 2014, with a small but consistent increase since then. Turkish income inequality is among the highest in OECD countries, with levels not lower than 0.4. This chapter will examine residential socio-economic segregation in Istanbul against the backdrop of this relatively stable and high-income inequality. The chapter shows signs that residential segregation is on the rise. Istanbul has undergone a radical change in the 2000s thanks to active intervention by the state in the real estate market by opening up large pieces of land in the outskirts and gentrifying inner-city areas once occupied by unauthorized settlements that once were home to the poor. Dynamics of urban development, fueled by rapid urban sprawl in peri-urban areas and ceaseless gentrification of inner-city areas, gave way to diverse patterns of segregation depending on the already existing divisions and physical geography of cities. Given the lack of neighbourhood level data on either occupations or income, this chapter analyses segregation through indices based on fertility and educational level, which we know from detailed household microdata are closely correlated with income. On the basis of 2000 and 2017 neighbourhood data, we show that in Istanbul, there is a clearly visible pattern where the poor are progressively pushed further to the city limits, while some parts of built-up areas once home to middle classes, were recaptured by the poor. The result in some parts of the city is a juxtaposition of seemingly conflicting patterns: parts of the inner city were reclaimed by the poor while some parts were gentrified led by the nascent urban elite. The urban periphery was partly occupied by the bourgeoning middle classes and was also home to the urban poor who were displaced by urban transformation projects.

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‘Sulukule is the gun and we are its bullets': Urban renewal and Romani identity in Istanbul

Cited by 23 publications

References 12 publications

Female Balkan Romani Singers: Charting Innovative Performance Paths

Female Balkan Romani Singers: Charting Innovative Performance Paths

Women's Leadership in Music

Residential Segregation in a Highly Unequal Society: Istanbul in the 2000s

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