Abstract:

Arab Alawi community had no text and a culture dependent on text due to physical and social conditions they lived for centuries. Thus, the transfer of tradition/culture has been come true with the oral culture. The most significant problem of Arab Alawites is the loss gradually of the culture in cultural context. It has been come today by transferring from ear to ear of only oral culture. To be under the tension for centuries caused the community introverted. In recent years, the members of community have begun to express themselves in different ways. As a community disregarded for many years, it seems impossible to write cultural history of community who continue their life in rural areas. In this way, the musical tradition of Arab Alawi community has been taken down academically in this article. Accordingly, some of the songs belonged to the past has been forgotten and some tended to be forgotten or have been translated by other communities into their own languages and even claimed that their own songs. In this context; the cultural products of community, including music, should be recorded from oral culture to written culture immediately and should be transmitted to future generations. In this article, it is going to contribute to transmission of tradition to some extent by passing oral culture to written culture

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