Cultural Heritage of Turkic-Speaking Peoples in World Collections: Historical Audio Recordings of The Berlin Phonogram Archive

Abstract

In the countries of the Turkic world, for more than 100 years of using sound recording devices, a huge amount of various sound materials on the traditional musical art of the Turkic peoples have been accumulated, recorded by scientists from different countries, in different regions and on different media. The first historical sound recordings of the Turkic-speaking peoples, which are of significant historical, cultural and scientific value, are kept separately in various foreign archives and have not received a complete and comprehensive study. This article provides a brief presentation of the unique historical audio materials of the music of the Turkic-speaking peoples, which were collected by German scholars at the beginning of the 20th century and are stored in the Berlin Phonogram Archive.