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Somut Olmayan Kültürel Miras Bağlamında Çalgı Yapım Yarışmaları

2023; ASOS Eğitim Bilişim Danışmanlık; Volume: Volume 18 Issue 1; Issue: Volume 18 Issue 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.7827/turkishstudies.66768

1308-2140

Murat KÜÇÜKEBE,

Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies

In Turkey, there are five different departments providing education at the undergraduate level in order to preserve the knowledge about the tradition and mastery of instrument making, to research it scientifically, to deal with it using current methods and to transfer it to the future generations by reconstructing it.In addition, in Vocational and Technical Anatolian High Schools and Fine Arts High Schools, courses related to the field and workshop practices are carried out.Next to formal education, young people who are involved in private instrument making workshops benefit from the opportunities of non-formal education.The tradition in question was added to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Turkey National Inventory List with the title of Traditional Instrument Making and Performance, it is the fourth group with the highest number of 35 different groups in the list and it contains 17 different elements and is important among the overall total number of 297 elements.It is known that important results that will contribute to cultural life have been obtained thanks to the studies carried out by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the identification and registration of intangible cultural heritage carriers and that national protection action plans have been put forward for the protection of these elements.However, within the said plan, it seen that the idea of organizing competitions, which is a very common practice abroad for musical instruments, has not yet taken place.It can be said that the phenomenon of competition has an important place in Turkish culture due to many valuable examples such as horse, arrow throwing, javelin, spear, boat races or minstrel battels of words.From this point of view, in this article, the possible contribution of the musical instrument making competitions as a platform to open the way for new ideas through skilful production and restoration of the works together with the preservation and transfer of the intangible cultural heritage of instrument making tradition is discussed.In addition, the current competition examples abroad were examined and the position of the countries where these competitions are held in terms of the number of elements related to the field of musical instrument making in the national inventory lists of intangible cultural heritage was questioned in comparison with Turkey.With scope of this inquiry, when the number of items registered in the ICH national inventory list is compared among the countries where the competition event is held, it is concluded that Turkey, which has a rich cultural background and diversity, is in a different position from these countries despite the high number of items in the national inventory list emerges.Competition organizations, primarily related to the bağlama, sipsi, kaval, drum, kabak kemane, tulum, kemençe, rebap, cura, garmon, nağarazurna and abdal tradition instrument making/performing or delbek tradition, the instruments which are included in the national inventory list, instead of being entirely based on the theme of competition, it would be beneficial to plant it in Turkey in a way that all participants would