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Film, Video Ali Doğan Gönültaş Quartet

Event video

About this Item

Title

  • Ali Doğan Gönültaş Quartet

Summary

  • Ali Doğan Gönültaş is a Kurdish musician born in Turkey. A graduate of Kocaeli University in both archaeology and communications, he started his professional music career by founding the band Ze Tijê; the group has since released two albums and has performed hundreds of concerts in Turkey. Ali's oral history and field research, which he began in 2007, has led to the 2022 album "Kiǧi," and to this concert. Kiǧi is a personal look at the 150-year musical process of the village of Kiǧi, Ali's birthplace. It consists of works in the regional languages of Kurmancî, Kirdaskî, Armenian and Turkish, as well as Zazakî, Ali's mother tongue. Themes and styles such as govend (traditional Kurdish dance), laments, work songs, and prayer forms are conveyed with the modal characteristics of the region.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2023-07-12.

Notes

  • -  Ali Doğan Gönültaş Quartet.
  • -  Recorded on 2023-07-12.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2025661307

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Ali Doğan Gönültaş Quartet. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-12, 2023. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2025661307/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2023) Ali Doğan Gönültaş Quartet. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-12. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2025661307/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Ali Doğan Gönültaş Quartet. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-12, 2023. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2025661307/>.