| Summary: | This study aims to examine the folk song titled “Yaban Gülü Müsün Sarp Kayalarda”
recorded in the TRT (Turkish Radio and Television Corporation) Turkish Folk
Music Repertoire (No. 4095). This folk song, which was originally written and
composed by Ashik Davut Sulari, has been performed by many TRT artists and
others using the text in the archive records and has become widespread as such.
However, some gaps and inconsistencies have been identified in the archival text
of the folk song, which completely change the context and meaning. To rectify
these gaps, texts of the folk song were examined comparatively. First, the original
text of the folk song was determined based on Ashik Davut Sulari’s recordings and
then compared with examples in the written sources. Next, an eight-item data set
containing details about his life story was created. The resulting text was analyzed
using qualitative content and discourse analysis methods. Moreover, it was also
determined that the composition of the folk song titled “Çankaya” was copied by
Ashik Mahzuni Şerif who claimed it as his own. All these factors, as stated in
the title of the study, have led the aforementioned folk song to be described as an
“unfortunate song”.
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