THE PERFORMANCE OF TURKIC ORAL EPIC
An extract from the Karakalpak version of the epic Ashyk Gharip
An extract from the Karakalpak epic Edige
Performed by Žumabay-žïraw Bazarov (Jumabay-jïraw Bazarov) in Shomanay, Karakalpakistan (Uzbekistan), in 1993.(revised version of Chapter Four in: Karl Reichl, Turkic Oral Epic Poetry: Traditions, Forms, Poetic Structure. The Albert Bates Lord Studies in Oral Tradition 7. New York & London: Garland, 1992, pp. 93-117.)
Recent publications on Turkic epic poetry and the performance of epic
