Author/Authors :
MUSTAN DÖNMEZ, Banu İnonu Universty - Faculty of Fine Arts and Design - Department of Musicology, Turkey
Title Of Article :
BEHAIVOUR of WOMEN in the MIDDLE EAST within the FRAMEWORK OF GENDER IDENTITY and KURDISH MUSICAL EXCLAMATION: “ZILGIT‟‟ or “TİLİLİ‟‟
Abstract :
This study is constituted to handle the zılgıt that Kurdish use in or out their music with the framework of gender behaivour and Kurdish identity. Zılgıt or in Kurdish mean tilili is the name of the sound telling middle East women‟s emotions including deep sorrow and hilarity, generally in music but sometimes without music by dancing their tongue in their mouth in a quick way. Zılgıt or tilili is predominantly the symbol of Kurdish identity as performed specially by Mesopotamia and North Iraq Kurdish. Furthermore, it is the symbol of woman gender as performed by women. In brief, the performing of zılgıt by Kurdish is the symbol of ethnic identity, the performing of zılgıt by women is the symbol of gender identity. Consequently, the assistance has been taken not only from gender identity but also from cultural and ethnic theories for analyzing of zılgıt.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Gender Identity , Kurdish Identity , Middle East Woman , Music , Lawij (Dirge) , Govend (folk dance) , zılgıt (tilili).
JournalTitle :
dicle university journal of social sciences institute
