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Kurdish music

Kurdish music includes the maqam, the tanbur and the daf, and song traditions of every region.

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Faculty of Kurdish Studies
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  1. Aza Zuhair, Hossein Hassani (2021). Comparing the Accuracy of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in Music Genre Recognition (MGR): Experiments on Kurdish Music. arXiv. DOI 10.48550/arxiv.2111.11063
  2. After decades spent gathering Kurdish literature and cultural artifacts for an “exile museum,” one man’s life’s work is under threat. (2026). Kurdish Exile Museum.
  3. Aza Kamala, Hossein Hassani (2022). Kurdish Music Genre Recognition Using a CNN and DNN. Engineering Proceedings. DOI 10.3390/asec2022-13803
  4. Gönenç Hongur (2022). Soundscapes and borderscapes: Music as a counter‐mapping discourse in the Kurdish nationalist movement. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. DOI 10.1111/sena.12360
  5. Şenay TANRIVERMİŞ (2020). Silent Representation of Kurdish Identity in Cinema through "Sarmaşık (Ivy)". International Journal of Kurdish Studies. DOI 10.21600/ijoks.632527

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01Fields

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  • Maqam
  • Tanbur
  • Daf and percussion
  • Regional song traditions

02Classification

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SchemeCodeSteward
OECD Fields of Research and Development (FORD), Frascati Manual 2015, Table 2.26.4OECD
ISCED Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F 2013)0215UNESCO Institute for Statistics

03Courses

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04Communities of practice

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06Related service subsites

  • Heritage

    History from the Zagros to today, memory, faiths, arts, literature and food.

07More in this department

  • Open

    Kurdish literatures

    Kurdish literatures run from the classical poetry of Ehmedê Xanî and the Baban school to the modern novel.

    4 courses5 fields

  • Open

    Kurdish oral tradition

    Dengbêj singers carry epic, lament and song in the Kurdish oral tradition.

    1 course4 fields

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    Kurdish dance

    Govend and the other Kurdish dances are danced in lines and circles at weddings and festivals.

    1 course3 fields

  • Open

    Kurdish cinema

    Kurdish cinema has grown in four states and in exile, often in several languages.

    1 course4 fields

  • Open

    Kurdish crafts and dress

    Kurdish crafts include kilims, carpets, dress and embroidery, each with regional styles.

    1 course3 fields

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The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Kurdish music. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-music/

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The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Kurdish Music.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-music/.

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	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Kurdish music},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-music/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdish-music/},
}

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08Research and sources

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  1. Comparing the Accuracy of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in Music Genre Recognition (MGR): Experiments on Kurdish Music

    Aza Zuhair, Hossein Hassani · 2021 · arXiv

    PreprintDataCitearXivOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  2. After decades spent gathering Kurdish literature and cultural artifacts for an “exile museum,” one man’s life’s work is under threat.

    2026 · Kurdish Exile Museum

    ArticleKurdish Exile Museum

  3. Kurdish Music Genre Recognition Using a CNN and DNN

    Aza Kamala, Hossein Hassani · 2022 · Engineering Proceedings

    ArticleDOAJOpenAIREOpen access

  4. Soundscapes and borderscapes: Music as a counter‐mapping discourse in the Kurdish nationalist movement

    Gönenç Hongur · 2022 · Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  5. Silent Representation of Kurdish Identity in Cinema through "Sarmaşık (Ivy)"

    Şenay TANRIVERMİŞ · 2020 · International Journal of Kurdish Studies

    ArticleCrossref

  6. "Acting" under Turkey’s State of Emergency: A Conversation with Kurdish Artists about Theatre, the Dengbêj Tradition, and the First Kurdish Hamlet

    Verstraete, Pieter · 2019 · Performance Matters

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen accesspublic-domain

  7. Music, Memory, and Affect Attunement: Connecting Kurdish Diaspora in Stockholm

    Ulrik Volgsten, Oscar Pripp · 2016 · Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  8. Kurdish Music as Literature: Some Historical Considerations

    Jon E. Bullock · 2023 · Essays on Modern Kurdish Literature

    ChapterCrossrefOpenAIRE

  9. Kurdish cinema

    Bahar Şimşek · 2018 · Routledge Handbook on the Kurds

    ChapterCrossref

  10. Dancers of the Book: Yemenite, Persian, and Kurdish Jewish Dance

    Portland State University, Quinn Bicer · 2023 · Anthós

    ArticleCrossref

  11. Kurdish music

    Stephen Blum, Dieter Christensen, Amnon Shiloah · 2001 · Oxford Music Online

    OtherCrossrefDataCite

  12. Relationship of History and Music: Traces of Historical Events in Kurdish Music and Evdalê Zeynikê

    Tekin ÇİFÇİ · 2022 · International Journal of Kurdish Studies

    ArticleCrossref

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