Animal style in Siberian and Central Asian Music

Abstract

In traditional music, it is possible to talk about stylizations that have persisted for many years and are widespread. The musical styles mentioned are often linked to social traditions and various cults. This work is themed on the «animal style», which we claim is a dominant style in Siberian and Central Asian music. This article is a continuation of the study titled «Animal Style in the Music of Central Asian and Siberian Turks», published in 2020, and the research I submitted as my second doctoral thesis at the Department of History at Ankara University in 2018. This article has been prepared for the purpose of briefly introducing the scope of our animal style claim and the subheadings it includes. The study is a summary of the studies on the folk music of Sakhas-Yakuts, Tuvans, Khakas, Altai, Nenets, Khanty-Mansi in Siberian peoples and Mongols, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Azerbaijanis in Central and Western Asia. The data of this descriptive study have been obtained as a result of field research along with literature review.