EXAMINATION OF AKSARAY FOLK SONGS IN TERMS OF VARIOUS MOTIFS AND ELEMENTS Cover Image

AKSARAY TÜRKÜLERİNİN ÇEŞİTLİ MOTİF VE UNSURLAR AÇISINDAN İNCELENMESİ
EXAMINATION OF AKSARAY FOLK SONGS IN TERMS OF VARIOUS MOTIFS AND ELEMENTS

Author(s): Ilgım KILIÇ TAPU, Pınar ŞAHİN
Subject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Music, History of Art
Published by: Motif Halk Oyunları Eğitim ve Öğretim Vakfı
Keywords: Aksaray folk songs; folk music; folk lyrics; folk song analysis; motif in folk songs;

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important cultural values of the society is folk songs. Folk songs have been formed and developed over thousands of years and have reached today by enriching. To understand the Anatolian people, it is of great importance to look at the folk songs and analyze the messages given by these folk songs. Because almost every situation in Anatolian geography has been transfered to folk songs. Folk songs reflect the language of that society in a sense. Thus, the pain, joy, longing, expatriation, and anger experienced by the society are expressed in folk songs. Folk songs reflect individual feelings as well as social, sociological, economic and political events. While folk songs belonging to a certain region express similar and common feelings and thoughts, the in-depth examination of the folk songs of only one province reveals the cultural, historical, geographical, sociological situations of that province more clearly. The folk songs of Aksaray region are seen as one of the products that add value to the research with their different and rich examples. In this direction, the folk songs, which are an important element of Aksaray culture, have been examined in depth in the research and the cultural motifs of the folk songs are described in order. The purpose of this research is to examine Aksaray folk songs registered in TRT repertoire and to analyze these folk songs in terms of various motifs and elements. The research is a descriptive study on Aksaray folk songs based on literature review method. In the study, first of all, the district to which the folk songs belong, the source persons of the folk songs, the compilers of the folk songs and the people who wrote the songs were specified, then the folk songs were classified according to certain subjects and examined in detail.

  • Issue Year: 13/2020
  • Issue No: 32
  • Page Range: 1480-1492
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Turkish
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