| Description |
Singing art is one of the important areas of folk performing art. The folk song reflects the life of people: their work, thoughts, moods, feelings, skills and knowledge. People need a folk song as an art form that creates beauty with original expressive means: musical, dynamic, rhythmic and audible. By these means, she serves a person in life, helping in work and holidays, in sorrow and joy. The Uzbek singing art has different directions. |
| Social and cultural significance |
Thoughts and hopes of Uzbek people, its way of life and customs were brightly reflected in singing art, predetermined thematic and genre diversity of folk songs, which exist in closed socio-cultural environment. Singing art of Uzbek people formed for centuries depending on its social and daily life functions, social and psychological peculiarities of the ethnos.
And folk song, while being mostly not only an entertainment but also a compelling need, while performing various functions in the family life of a person and in collective life of the society, comprises of large groups of applied or event-related (lullabies, labor, ritual related songs as well as historical songs) and non-applied or non-event-related genres (lyrical, satirical ones or specific song genres such as qoshiq, lapar, olan, yalla, ashula), which have diverse themes and forms. Each song genre, its functions, forms, expressive measures are unique and inimitable. Currently, it is gaining special importance in connection with the growing interest in classical music. |
| Transmission method |
Transmission of knowledge and skills is taking place on the basis of traditional Usto-Shogird (“Master-Apprentice”) learning method and/or within formal educational programme in specialized educational establishments among which there are Uzbekistan State Conservatory, Institute of National Musical Art named after Yunus Rajabi, Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture and others. |
| Community |
Folklore ensembles in centers of culture, mahalla, theaters,TV and radio, schools, colleges, other educational institutions, Philharmonic Society |
