A historiography intervention through 90’s pop music in Turkey : an interview with İlker Hepkaner and Sezgin İnceel

Kurzfassung/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 on 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.