Talantaaly Bakchiev Explained

Talantaaly Bakchiev (born 1971) is a manaschi (a reciter of the Kyrgyz epic Epic of Manas), representative of the 'middle generation' (born in the Soviet period, career in the independence period),[1] and academic. He was president of the “Manas” and Chingiz Aitmatov National Academy.[2] [3]

In becoming a manaschi, he stated that Sayakbay Karalaev had appeared in his calling dream,[4] and that Shaabai Azizov was his mentor.[5] He has performed, formerly while holding a whip,[6] in Kyrgyzstan and in Yakutsk.[7]

He is notable for having 'concocted an episode describing the memorial feast for Manas' and performed it at the National Manaschi Competition in Bishkek in 1999, and later defended the narrative from critical judges deeming it an invention by publishing his own variant (Manastin ashi) and discovering a predecessor, Tinibek, had performed a similar episode.[8] [9]

Recordings of his oral performances of episodes of the epos have been made available online by the Aigine Cultural Research Center,[10] and the Open Society Archives.[11] Transcriptions of the latter,[12] [13] audiovisual recordings made at the American University of Central Asia of variant performances narrating the birth of Manas, have been studied to reveal his in-performance composition methods that are similar to those described by Milman Parry as Oral-formulaic composition.[14]

He has published episodes from the epos: a narrative concerning the memorial feast of the titular character Manas (Manastin ashi),[15] and a narrative concerned with his companion, Almanbet (Almambettin jomogu).[16] These have been analyzed in comparison with his texts produced in performance.[17]

He authored an academic thesis on the subject of Kyrgyz epics,[18] and the first manaschi to produce a textbook on the subject.[19] [20]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Aĭtpaeva . G. A. . Mazar worship in Kyrgyzstan : rituals and practitioners in Talas . 2007 . Aigine Cultural Research Center . Bishkek . 978-9967-24-092-6 . 9.
  2. News: Mokrenko . Anastasia . Talantaaly Bakchiev becomes head of Manas National Academy . 24.kg . 14 December 2021.
  3. News: Osmonalieva . Baktygul . Head of Manas National Academy dismissed from his post . 24.kg . 24 June 2024.
  4. Book: Heide . Nienke van der . Spirited performance: the Manas epic and society in Kyrgyzstan . 2015 . EHV Academicpress . Bremen . 122.
  5. Book: Heide . Nienke van der . Spirited performance: the Manas epic and society in Kyrgyzstan . 2015 . EHV Academicpress . Bremen . 132.
  6. Book: Reichl . Karl . The oral epic from performance to interpretation . 2021 . New York . 978-0367761318.
  7. Web site: Открытие книжно-иллюстративной выставки "Манас ааламы" и презентация книги "Новые грани эпоса «Манас" заслуженного деятеля КР, манасчи, манасоведа, доктора филологических наук Т. Бакчиева. . Национальная Библиотека Кыргызской Республики имени Алыкула Осмонова . ru-RU . 1 December 2021.
  8. Book: Ready . Jonathan L. . The homeric simile in comparative perspectives : oral traditions from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia . 2018 . Oxford . 9780198802556 . 103 . First.
  9. Book: van der Heide . Nienke . Spirited Performance: The Manas Epic and Society in Kyrgyzstan . 2015 . EHV Academicpress . Bremen . 130.
  10. Web site: List of Semetei Episodes and Chanters . Aigine Cultural Research Center.
  11. Web site: Episodes from the 'Manas' Epos . OSA Archivum.
  12. Book: AKYN изилдөө тобу . «Манастын төрөлүшү» эпизоду түрдүү варианттарда . 2024 . Ордо . Бишкек . 978-9967-9509-8-6 .
  13. Web site: American University of Central Asia - AUCA - Talantaaly Backchiev . auca.kg . en.
  14. Plumtree . James . A Kyrgyz Singer Of Tales: Formulas in Three Performances of the Birth of Manas by Talantaaly Bakchiev . Доклады Национальной академии наук Кыргызской Республики . 2019 . 1 . 125–133 .
  15. Book: Бакчиев . T . Манастын ашы . 2011 . Турар . Бишкек . Kyrgyz.
  16. Book: Бакчиев . T . Алмамбеттин жомогу . 1995 . Акил . Каракол . Kyrgyz.
  17. Plumtree . James . A Contemporary Manaschi in Oral Performance and in Print . Alatoo Academic Studies . 2021 . 21 . 1 . 238–244 . 10.17015/aas.2021.211.29 . 239745309 . 1694-5263.
  18. Book: Бакчиев . Талантаалы . Кыргызские эпические сказители . 2015 . Принт-Экспресс . Бишкек . 9789967125056 . Russian.
  19. Book: Бакчиев . T. A. . Манасоведение: Учебное пособие для вузов . 2019 . Алтын тамга . Бишкек . 2019 . Russian.
  20. News: Презентация книги "Сказительский дар" Талантаалы Бакчиева . culturamagazine.org . 28 April 2021 . ru-RU.

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