A historiography intervention through 90’s pop music in Turkey: an interview with İlker Hepkaner and Sezgin İnceel
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: A podcast series on 90s popular culture in Turkey helped its audience to think about the period through feminist and queer perspectives.Yine Yeni Yeniden 90'lar (Again, Anew, Once Again the 90s-YYY90) is produced by İlker Hepkaner and Sezgin İnceel, creating an original analysis of a range of topics, including pop music (and others such as rock and arabesque), music videos and ads, TV series, festivals and many more.Resisting a rising nostalgic approach to 90's popular culture in Turkey, they analyse gendered lyrics, problematic representations of femininities and masculinities, as well as forms of resistance that occurred in the period.YYY90 do so by creating a historiography based on recent theoretical debates and their personal reflections.Feminist and queer historiographies are often produced by focusing on rights-based movements.This interview shows how an analysis of popular culture can be a strong way to develop a historiography intervention. ─── Demet Gülçiçek:You produce a very original analysis that affected many Turkish speaker people.Can you please talk about your motivations to analyse 90s pop music from a feminist and queer perspective through a podcast?I am interested in your personal (hence-political) and theoretical motivations.İlker Hepkaner: Personal, political and theoretical interests are hard to separate for me.I left academia after finishing my PhD in Cultural Studies at the New York University.Even though I do not produce knowledge for the academic field anymore, I care about conveying academic knowledge to non-academic groups.I got very excited about making academic knowledge understandable with examples that everybody knows while critically analysing nostalgic feelings about the 90s.Nostalgic memory practices were a focus of my PhD research, I worked on Memory and Cultural Heritage Practices of Jews from Turkey (İlker Hepkaner 2019).Inspired from this research, I became interested in nostalgic
Source: Feminist Media Studies
Author: Demet Gülçiçek
Institution: University of Warwick
Language: English
Topic: Music History and Culture
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4392646996