PLACE OF A WOMEN-EXECUTOR - HALFA BOOK IN KHOREZM OASIS

Аннотация

The article says that, in the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan, the performer of folk songs and folk epic tales, as well as excerpts from dastans and their songs, are called half. Khalfachilik - the art of half was formed and developed in Khorezm in the Middle Ages. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this art acquires its status and form of performance, which was functioned by women in the female half of the Ichkari. Later they began to serve family celebrations and public holidays. Halfa is a woman - performer of folk songs and instrumental music, at the same time an epic storyteller and poetess in the Khorezm oasis, which have incorporated the traditions of oral folk art.