This talk will reflect on, and attempt to contextualize, the Gezi Park protests of May 2013. What does this decade of more or less global protest have to tell us about the place of sound, and the human voice, in protest and in public space more generally? The talk will look back at various highly iconic performative moments, soundscapes and songs associated with the Gezi Park protests, including Kardeş Türküler’s “Tencere Tava Havası”, the David Martello’s ‘piano recital’, and “Every Day I’m Chapulling." Martin Stokes is King Edward Professor of Music at the King's College London in the United Kingdom, where he teaches a range of courses in ethnomusicology and the anthropology of music, many, but not all, with a focus on the music of the Middle East and the Islamic world