Publications

The following publications utilize the transcriptions of performances by Talantaaly Bakchiev and Doolot Sydykov presented on this website.

• 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.
• 2020. 'Replicating the Birth of Manas: Composition Methods of Doolot Sydykov and Talantaaly Bakchiev', Известия Национальной академии наук Кыргызской Республики 3: 175-187.
• 2021. 'Computer-Assisted Analysis of Manas Narratives: Demonstrations and Directions', Manas Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi 10 (3): 1506-1515.
• ____. 'A Contemporary Manaschi in Oral Performance and in Print', Alatoo Academic Studies 1: 238-244.
• ____. 'A Telling Tradition: Preliminary Comments on the Epic of Manas, 1856-2018', in Medieval Stories and Storytelling: Multimedia and Multi-Temporal Perspectives, ed. S. C. Thomson, Medieval Narratives in Transmission 2 (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 239-301.

Kyrgyz translations of the above studies are being prepared for publication in a single volume.