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Karakalpak Dastans, Arzu Azimova

Eurasian music science journal

Both all over Central Asia area and Karakalpakstan epic art is represented in the genre of dastan. Dastan can be defined as a comprehensive poetic legend, a story combining in itself prose, verses, and music. In given article such dastans are considered as «Almapys», «Gor ogli» («Kor-ogli»), «Edige», «Ashik Garib», «Shokhsanam and Garib» and also having local distribution such as «Kirk Kiz», «Maspatsha», «Sharyar», «Koblan». Karakalpak dastans, as many Central Asian dastans, are based on alternation of prosaic and poetic sections. Tradition bearers of epic performance in Karakalpakstan are jirau and bakhshi (baksis).

The Function Of Singing In The Architecture Of Songs Of Karakalpak Traditional Music, Shakhida Berdikhanova

Eurasian music science journal

In the modern world, questions of revival, maintenance and propaganda national to tradition of ethno culture, and in particular their musical heritage there is one of the most actual tasks of study of art.

Musical culture of Karakalpak people, phenomenon original, having centuries old history, in the sources of the family people closely associated with work inhabiting territory of Central Asia. Karakalpak folklore has a variety of genres and forms in which history, everyday life, customs and traditions are embodied.

The study of the Karakalpak song tradition will allow us to understand the basic patterns of the musical language of …