Abstract:

On analyzing art music in terms of the elements (language, religion, history, literature) that form it, it is seen that it is a wide range of subject matter. A detailed study is needed to study the connections of world cultures and music with each other. When analyzing the sociological structure of our country’s geography in general, we can see that the history of folklore reached out Central Asia in 8th century. The cultural structure of Turkey has been formed with the accumulation of various and rich cultures. Turkey, because of its geographical location, is in the center of different cultures such as east, west, Middle East, Mediterranean and Islamic cultures. The events and facts that are adopted by all of the society or almost all of the society, make large masses feel the same feelings, have occurred as a result of a specific expansion process in the social and economic structure. Culture can be considered as the immune system of a society. It protects the society from the effects which are hazardous to its spiritual health and it sets its unique cultural values by forming them as a model. The commitment level of a society to its own traditions occurs as a result of its interaction with other cultures. Erzurum, with its borders to Ağrı, Iğdır in the east, Erzincan in the west, Artvin, Rize in the north, Muş in the south, is the fourth big city of Turkey in terms of its surface area. Erzurum is one of our important cities in terms of its location on transmission, development and maintaining cultural elements as it has been a trade center in which trade activities have been maintained on Silk Road route and it is close to İran, Azerbaijan, Nakhichevan.Minstrels, who have been the primary representatives of minstrelsy tradition and who have hand in keeping Erzurum culture alive and transmitting it to the next generations, and their works have been stated.

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