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Kenan Behzat Sharpe
kenanbsharpe@gmail.comWho 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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February 14, 2021
Take me to the moon!
February 07, 2021
Rap anthems of the Boğaziçi protests
January 29, 2021
Boğaziçi’s resistance through art
January 22, 2021
Indie music’s moment of introspection
January 16, 2021
The new generation streams with GAİN and Exxen
January 08, 2021
Boğaziçi students' wit
January 01, 2021
Singing in the dark times
December 26, 2020
2020: The year in music in Turkey
December 19, 2020
The return of Anadolu Rock legends Moğollar
December 11, 2020
The #MeToo moment of Turkish literature
December 04, 2020
Sex workers in Turkey and the pandemic
November 27, 2020
This week in Turkey's hate speech parade
November 20, 2020
Ethos: A journey into soul-searching in present-day Turkey
November 14, 2020
Turkish music beyond Turkishness
November 06, 2020
Rebellious psychedelic rockers of Turkey
October 31, 2020
'Ghosts' of the New Turkey
October 25, 2020
Challenging Turkish rap’s machismo with Lil Zey
October 16, 2020
The Turkish Robinson of Manhattan
October 09, 2020
Kırmızı Oda: Getting Rich off Therapy
October 02, 2020
Turkish Rap: on the charts and in the streets
September 25, 2020
Greece and Turkey between love, hate and art
September 18, 2020
Alternative realities in Turkish TV: Atiye and Unfinished Love
September 12, 2020
Banning music to stop COVID-19 in Turkey?
September 05, 2020
Surveys, celebrities and pop feminism in Turkey
August 29, 2020
Turkey’s MasterChef obsession
August 22, 2020
Can celebrities endorse politicians in Turkey?
August 14, 2020
Love, spells, and all that
August 07, 2020
Zoomer pop: The music of Turkey's Generation Z
July 31, 2020
Summer vacationing in Turkey during COVID-19 pandemic