Azerbaijan National Academy of Science

The next concert of the “Ashug Music Evenings”, supported by the Institute of Folklore of ANAS, took place on October 7 at the International Mugham Center.

The main objective of the project is to promote Ashug art, one of the oldest spheres of oral music in Azerbaijan. The presentations of “Ashug Music Evenings” are devoted to the Western Azerbaijan Ashug school.

Ashugs from Gadabay, Borchali, Tovuz, Goycha, Gazakh and Kalbajar performed at the musical evening.

As a result of the prestige of Ashug's art, three main schools were created in terms of creativity and performance, such as the West Ashug School, the East Ashug School, and the South Ashug School. Ashug art developed in the western regions, preserving the Ozan tradition. Composing rich musical compositions, adding lyrical and epic poems in various shapes and types of syllables, creating rich content and heroic epics is a key feature of the Western Ashug School. In 2009, Azerbaijan ashug creativity was included in the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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