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Kenan Behzat Sharpe

Kenan Behzat Sharpe

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Who is Kenan Behzat Sharpe?

Kenan Behzat Sharpe is an Istanbul-based journalist and academic. He completed his PhD in Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2019. He is a co-founder of Blind Field: A Journal of Critical Inquiry and an assistant editor at Commune Magazine. He has written about art, culture, and politics in Turkey, Greece, and beyond for Al-Monitor, Jacobin, and Verso. His academic publications center on the relationship between left-wing social movements, youth countercultures, and the arts. He is currently completing his first book manuscript, Rockers and Radicals in Anatolia: Turkish Psychedelic Rock and the World 1960s, which explores the music and political context of Tülay German, Cem Karaca, Moğollar, Selda Bağcan, Erkin Koray, and other Anadolu Rock figures.

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July 18, 2020 Narrow times: After Adalet Ağaoğlu
July 10, 2020 Rainbows, unicorns, and 'national values' in Turkey
July 04, 2020 Why we return to folk music in Turkey
June 26, 2020 Istanbul Pride celebrated online with artist support
June 19, 2020 Can Evrenol's 'Naked': A new narrative on sex work or reproduction of clichés?
June 12, 2020 Park-goers of Istanbul gone wild
June 05, 2020 Whose lives matter in Turkey?
May 29, 2020 Digital dating in Turkey
May 22, 2020 Turkish-Greek solidarity through songs
May 15, 2020 Festtogether: Music festival with a cause
May 08, 2020 Broken hearts and quarantine songs: Nilipek’s “Letters”
May 01, 2020 Love 101, Netflix Turkey, and homophobia
April 24, 2020 On drinking rakı at home
April 17, 2020 Detectives and dystopias: Alef and Karanlık Bölge
April 10, 2020 The arts scene in Turkey vs. COVID-19
April 03, 2020 Lost Generation: Turkey's urban youth and COVID-19
March 27, 2020 Turkish rapper Ezhel: From nothing to everything
March 20, 2020 Enjoying Turkey's film festival from the couch during the time of corona
March 12, 2020 'The Protector's accidental relevance with the Coronavirus outbreak
March 06, 2020 The women saving Turkish pop
February 29, 2020 Spaces of hope: Turkey’s darkwave scene
February 20, 2020 Turkey’s romantic rap and R&B
February 14, 2020 "Girl With No Mouth" or the rebirth of Turkish genre film
February 08, 2020 Demirtaş between literature and politics
January 31, 2020 A rocky road ahead for Istanbul’s concert venues
January 24, 2020 Turkish Indie music wins global following