YA OZAN!
A insight into the troubadour---------------A contemporary in Turkey.
The sun shines differently here. The nights are longer, the drinks more enjoyable. And then there is love... You have to experience it to truly understand the attraction...
The Ozan-Minstrel-Literature:
A type of poetry in Turkish Popular Literature, that emerged at the beginning of the 16th century. The minstrel’s poetic powers come from dreaming of drinking from the ‘wine of love’ offered by an elder and seeing the image of his true love. The minstrel generally sees his lover as a saz, a stringed instrument. Other elements may be a white-bearded dervish and one or maybe three full goblets. The goblets frequently occur in the dream in the form of a bowl. The liquid offered to the bards in these goblets is said to be ‘full of love...’
Such poets are generally trained by a master. That way they learn both the master’s words and ways and means of performing their art. After having fully grasped these masters’ ways of expressing their art in the coffee houses, these poets then take on apprentices of their own, and the tradition thus continues.
The minstrel reveals his knowledge, feelings and abilities in battles of poetic repartee. The aim in these is to compete and win. At least two bards are involved in such matches. It begins with the recital of a verse by a master poet or other respected individual. The bard who is unable to add a further verse in the same style and meter is eliminated.
Such poets are generally trained by a master. That way they learn both the master’s words and ways and means of performing their art. After having fully grasped these masters’ ways of expressing their art in the coffee houses, these poets then take on apprentices of their own, and the tradition thus continues.
The minstrel reveals his knowledge, feelings and abilities in battles of poetic repartee. The aim in these is to compete and win. At least two bards are involved in such matches. It begins with the recital of a verse by a master poet or other respected individual. The bard who is unable to add a further verse in the same style and meter is eliminated.
Like your earliest bards, the Griot, Muwall, Shaman, or Mississippi Rambler outside of the streets there is a place for commune. Despite its invisibility through the mundane, there is life and a sharing happening constantly in "culture," the "folk," or the "tale" among it and its audience, wherever. Although times beauty can peak through more effectively when within "difference," we may benefit from wondering about our individual personalized knowledge knowing of local folks (e.g. 'American Cuisine'), consider society and its events as Observations in open-form.
In such cases as ozan çay evi (Bard's Tea House) in Bursa, Turkey: Stories cheer with ideals and shape the way space is oriented. Like nearly everywhere, you can visit it.
LISTEN!
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