This study aims to emphasize the organic connection of Turkish folk songs with both social life
and social/cultural values. Additionally it aims to identify the folk songs composed by minstrels
and related with human rights as much as possible, to note them, to present them in the entirety
of a poem-melody and to examine how and in which ways these songs thematize and process
human rights. In the oral cultural environment, the folk songs that were learned from previous
generations, kept alive through tradition and have survived for centuries with this cycle, have had a
functional importance in conveying and disseminating all kinds of feelings and thoughts, social and
cultural values of people by establishing connections between people via artistic communication.
It is possible to see the approach by which music reflects the cultural structure of the society in
which it is produced and finds its meaning in the literary and musical language of the folk songs,
in the variety of subjects and melodies. In this context, the way of life and tastes of the Anatolian
people in every stage of their lives from birth to death; from pain to joy, from love to rebellion,
from traditions, customs, beliefs, to the pursuit of rights and justice, in short, every feeling,
thought and behavior that concerns human beings found their expressions in folk songs.
“Folk song composers” and “minstrels” have an important place in the formation and survival of
folk songs as resources with creative and carrier qualities. In the age they lived, both sources had
written history by expressing every event that occurred as a result of the economic, political,
social and cultural life that affected the individual and the society. In the context of human rights,
concepts such as equality, freedom, dignity, justice and democracy are processed in the language
and folk songs of minstrels and folk song composers. Especially the minstrels as witnesses of the
age they live in, the language and the ear of the people, have undertaken an important mission
in raising awareness of human rights in folk songs with the awareness of being human. As the
incarnation of the saying “Those who make folk songs are mightier than those who make laws”,
minstrels sang folk songs to inform/teach, raise awareness and enlighten the public. It is possible
to understand how and to what extent human rights are perceived and implemented in Anatolia by
following the traces of these folk songs.
In this study, in which the data obtained by scanning the archives and sources on the subject are
explained descriptively, twenty work on human rights composed and written by minstrels were put
into notes and presented in the entirety of lyric-melody.
As a result, it has been observed that folk songs processed and thematized human rights in terms
of dignity, equality, freedom (intellectual/freedom of thought, expression, religion), justice,
democracy, the right to education, the right to life and the right to peace. In their folk songs,
the minstrels have highlighted human rights reported in terms of assessments, longing, request,
appeal, hope, reproach, complaint in an advising, hopeful, critical and questioning language. Being
not different from vocal declarations, these folk songs have demanded and called for a world where
human rights and dignity are recognized, where people can fulfill themselves, individuals can live
equally, justly, freely, democracy and peace.
Bu çalışmada, insan haklarını konu alan âşık üretimi türkülerin ulaşılabilindiği oranda
tespit edilerek notaya alınıp şiir ve ezgi bütününde bir arada sunulması ve insan haklarının
hangi açılardan, nasıl işlendiğinin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. İnsan haklarını konu alan
örnek yirmi âşık üretimi türküde insan haklarının kişi onuru, eşitlik, özgürlük (düşünme,
ifade, din), adalet, demokrasi, eğitim hakkı, yaşama hakkı ve barış hakkı bakımından ele
alındığı görülmüştür. Yaşadıkları çağın tanığı, halkın dili ve kulağı âşıklar türkülerinde,
insan haklarını durum tespiti, özlem, istek, çağrı, umut, sitem, şikayet anlamında öğüt
verici, ümit verici, eleştirel ve sorgulayıcı bir dille ele alarak işlemiş ve bildirmişlerdir.
Araştırmada, konuya ilişkin arşiv ve kaynak taraması yapılarak elde edilen veriler betimsel
olarak açıklanarak sonuçları bulgularda ortaya konulmuştur. Sonuç itibariyle insan hakları
sesli bildirisi niteliğindeki bu türkülerde, insan haklarını bilen kişiler yüceltilmiş ve kişinin
olanaklarını gerçekleştirebildiği, bireylerin eşitçe, adilce, özgürce yaşayabildiği, demokrasi
ve barışın egemen olduğu bir dünya talep edilmiştir.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Music |
Journal Section | Interdisciplinary Music Research |
Authors | |
Publication Date | August 31, 2021 |
Published in Issue | Year 2021 |
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