Two performances of the "Return of Alpamis" : current performance-practice in the Uzbek oral epic of the Sheraban school

dc.contributor.author	Feldman, Walter	eng
dc.date.issued	1997-10	eng
dc.description	The present study attempts to clarify the issues of text composition and poetic style within the Uzbek oral poetic genre known as the doston (dastan). It focuses on four short oral poetic texts: two recordings of two identical sections of the Alpamis doston sung by a single bard (baxsi) in 1990 and in 1991. Due to the fact that researchers within Uzbekistan and other former Soviet republics of Central Asia have paid little attention to issues of "improvisation" and "memorization," even such a modest attempt at multiple recording can help to state the relevant questions more clearly. A close analysis of the four texts demonstrates how the techniques of oral composition intersect with poetic style. This analysis is aided at times by interviews with and explanations from the bard. In addition, these interviews and observations of the bard and his immediate environment reveal aspects of the baxsi profession that he viewed as having significance.	eng
dc.description	Note	eng
dc.format.extent	29 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 12/2 (1997): 337-365.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65030
dc.language	English	eng
dc.title	Two performances of the "Return of Alpamis" : current performance-practice in the Uzbek oral epic of the Sheraban school	eng
dc.type	Article	eng