ÂŞIKLIK GELENEĞİNİN YAŞATILMASINDA KÜLTÜREL İCRA MEKÂNI OLARAK EĞİTİM KURUMLARININ ROLÜ: İZMİR HALK ÂŞIKLARI DERNEĞİ ÖRNEKLEMİ

Abstract

Folk culture, which is transferred from one generation to another by various methods and ways within traditions, continues to be transformed by becoming rapidly modified and putting itself in harmony with the changes that the globalized world has gone through, in the areas of industrialization, communication, transportation, economics and also urbanization, and establishing for itself a new place in society. By doing this, the Turkish folk poetry tradition is able to survive today by blending aspects of Turkish culture from the past as well as the present. This Turkish folk poetry tradition, which is a continuation of the original folkloric-style singing poet tradition that constitutes a significant part of Turkish folk culture, originated from Central Asia. Within the case study of the Izmir Poetry Singing Association, this paper analyzes the role of educational institutions as cultural performance centers that help keep the folk poetry singing tradition alive by producing products of folklore and enabling their sustainability through performances instead of just maintaining their preservation as artifacts from the past