İstanbul & Newsweek // canavarlar

heritage as a worldclass crossroads

Aug. 29, 2005 issue - Spend a summer night strolling down Istanbul's
Istiklal Caddesi, the pedestrian thoroughfare in the city's old Christian
quarter of Beyoglu, and you'll hear something surprising. Amid the crowds
of nocturnal revelers, a young Uzbek-looking girl plays haunting songs from
Central Asia on an ancient Turkic flute called a saz. Nearby, bluesy Greek
rembetiko blares from a CD store. Downhill toward the slums of Tarlabasi
you hear the wild Balkan rhythms of a Gypsy wedding, while at 360, an
ultratrendy rooftop restaurant, the sound is Sufi electronica—cutting-edge
beats laced with dervish ritual. And then there are the clubs—Mojo, say, or
Babylon—where the young and beautiful rise spontaneously from their
tables to link arms and perform a complicated Black Sea line dance, the
horon. The wonder is that each and every one of these styles is absolutely
native to the city, which for much of its history was the capital of half the
known world.

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