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Talantaaly Bakchiev

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Talantaaly Bakchiev (born 1971) is a manaschi (a reciter of the Kyrgyz epic Epic of Manas), representative of the 'middle generation' (born in the Soviet period, career in the independence period),[1] and academic. He was president of the “Manas” and Chingiz Aitmatov National Academy.[2][3]

In becoming a manaschi,[clarification needed] he stated that Sayakbay Karalaev had appeared in his calling dream,[4] and that Shaabai Azizov [who?] was his mentor.[5] He has performed, formerly while holding a whip,[6] in Kyrgyzstan and in Yakutsk.[7]

He is notable for having 'concocted an episode describing the memorial feast for Manas' and performed it at the National Manaschi Competition in Bishkek in 1999, and later defended the narrative from critical judges deeming it an invention by publishing his own variant (Manastin ashi) and discovering a predecessor, Tinibek, had performed a similar episode.[8][9]

Recordings of his oral performances of episodes of the epos have been made available online by the Aigine Cultural Research Center,[10] and the Open Society Archives.[11] Transcriptions of the latter,[12][13] audiovisual recordings made at the American University of Central Asia of variant performances narrating the birth of Manas, have been studied to reveal his in-performance composition methods that are similar to those described by Milman Parry as Oral-formulaic composition.[14]

He has published episodes from the epos: a narrative concerning the memorial feast of the titular character Manas (Manastin ashi),[15] and a narrative concerned with his companion, Almanbet (Almambettin jomogu).[16] These have been analyzed in comparison with his texts produced in performance.[17]

He authored an academic thesis on the subject of Kyrgyz epics,[18] and the first manaschi to produce a textbook on the subject.[19][20]

References

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  1. ^ Aĭtpaeva, G. A. (2007). Mazar worship in Kyrgyzstan : rituals and practitioners in Talas. Bishkek: Aigine Cultural Research Center. p. 9. ISBN 978-9967-24-092-6.
  2. ^ Mokrenko, Anastasia (14 December 2021). "Talantaaly Bakchiev becomes head of Manas National Academy". 24.kg.
  3. ^ Osmonalieva, Baktygul (24 June 2024). "Head of Manas National Academy dismissed from his post". 24.kg.
  4. ^ Heide, Nienke van der (2015). Spirited performance: the Manas epic and society in Kyrgyzstan. Bremen: EHV Academicpress. p. 122.
  5. ^ Heide, Nienke van der (2015). Spirited performance: the Manas epic and society in Kyrgyzstan. Bremen: EHV Academicpress. p. 132.
  6. ^ Reichl, Karl (2021). The oral epic from performance to interpretation. New York. ISBN 978-0367761318.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ "Открытие книжно-иллюстративной выставки "Манас ааламы" и презентация книги "Новые грани эпоса «Манас" заслуженного деятеля КР, манасчи, манасоведа, доктора филологических наук Т. Бакчиева". Национальная Библиотека Кыргызской Республики имени Алыкула Осмонова (in Russian). 1 December 2021.
  8. ^ Ready, Jonathan L. (2018). The homeric simile in comparative perspectives : oral traditions from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia (First ed.). Oxford. p. 103. ISBN 9780198802556.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ van der Heide, Nienke (2015). Spirited Performance: The Manas Epic and Society in Kyrgyzstan. Bremen: EHV Academicpress. p. 130.
  10. ^ "List of Semetei Episodes and Chanters". Aigine Cultural Research Center.
  11. ^ "Episodes from the 'Manas' Epos". OSA Archivum.
  12. ^ AKYN изилдөө тобу (2024). «Манастын төрөлүшү» эпизоду түрдүү варианттарда (PDF). Бишкек: Ордо. ISBN 978-9967-9509-8-6.
  13. ^ "American University of Central Asia - AUCA - Talantaaly Backchiev". auca.kg.
  14. ^ Plumtree, James (2019). "A Kyrgyz Singer Of Tales: Formulas in Three Performances of the Birth of Manas by Talantaaly Bakchiev". Доклады Национальной академии наук Кыргызской Республики (1): 125–133.
  15. ^ Бакчиев, T (2011). Манастын ашы (in Kyrgyz). Бишкек: Турар.
  16. ^ Бакчиев, T (1995). Алмамбеттин жомогу (in Kyrgyz). Каракол: Акил.
  17. ^ Plumtree, James (2021). "A Contemporary Manaschi in Oral Performance and in Print". Alatoo Academic Studies. 21 (1): 238–244. doi:10.17015/aas.2021.211.29. ISSN 1694-5263. S2CID 239745309.
  18. ^ Бакчиев, Талантаалы (2015). Кыргызские эпические сказители (in Russian). Бишкек: Принт-Экспресс. ISBN 9789967125056.
  19. ^ Бакчиев, T. A. (2019). Манасоведение: Учебное пособие для вузов (in Russian). Бишкек: Алтын тамга. p. 2019.
  20. ^ "Презентация книги "Сказительский дар" Талантаалы Бакчиева". culturamagazine.org (in Russian). 28 April 2021.
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