![]() ![]() By giving examples from songs, lyrics, and the virtual world of Kurdish music, the study elaborates on how Kurds reinforce the territorial imagination of ‘Kurdistan’ as the rightful homeland of a Kurdish nation. The concept of the borderscape provides a theoretical lens through which to understand how music has been politicized and positioned between the non-existence of a Kurdish nation-state and the enduring existence of Kurdish as an ethnicity, a language, and a homeland in the Middle East. It focuses on issues such as migration, diaspora, border, ethnicity, transnationalism, and nation-building through Kurdish music and Kurdish musicians. ![]() ![]() This article traces the ways in which Kurdish claims to national rights and borders have been structured around transnational and virtual spaces to coalesce into music. ![]()
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