Love, Deutschmarks and Death

The vivid story of the ethnic Turkish community in Germany and how music has reflected their lives and shaped their identity since they arrived in the country in the early 1960s as cheap labor: from the protest songs circulating on cassette tapes to the outlawed ‘Anatolian rock’ of Cem Karaca, and from Derdiyoklar’s psychedelic “disko folk” wedding tracks to the anti-racist hip hop revolt of King Size Terror and Muhabbet.