Istanbul Film- On Campus Event 2

This event was actually very entertaining as well as informative. The film featured was Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul; it explored the various genres of music in Turkey and explained the culture of music that they have. The narrator Alexander Hacke travels throughout Istanbul visiting and recording songs with different music. He described earlier in the film that the people of Istanbul didn't know what their music was until the age of 19; around then people began to realized the their country brings music from the west and the east and twists the music around to give the sound of Istanbul. What I noticed about their music is that the lyrics did not make sense, and the only real genre that had lyrics that did make sense was ironically the rap music. I say ironically because in America, rap music is looked at as just words and rabbling. A lot of things that they did include in their lyrics were things about their city, Istanbul. They often sang about their beautiful city, which is much different from our lyrics in America. Overall this was an excelent film about music of differnt cultures and opened my eyes to the different types of music genres across the world.