THE IMPORTANCE OF SPEECH IN BAKHSHI

Abstract

An artist who sings, recites, and transmits songs and epics from generation to generation. The word bakhshi is sometimes used in the sense of shaman. While performing Bakhshi mainly sing the epics they learned from their teacher exactly with minor changes, creative Bakhshi create their own versions of epics based on the oral epic tradition, and even create new epics based on them. Such Bakhshi are also called poets. For example, Ergash poet, Fazil poet, Polkan poet, Abdullah poet, Khidir poet and other Bakhshi sing epics and songs to the accompaniment of instruments such as the qobiz, dombi-ra, and dutar. The Khorezm Bakhshi perform epics mainly with the dutar, and partly with the tor, accompanied by singers on the gijjak and bolamo. Strict rules and regulations were observed in singing epics and training disciples (see also Epics);