Go‘ro‘g‘li dostonlarini o‘rganishda ijro kontekstining metodologik ahamiyati

Abstract

A written record of oral epic makes its verbal content accessible but cannot fully convey voice, the performance situation or audience participation. This article examines the methodological significance of that distinction for interpreting the Gorogly epic. It uses a problem-oriented analysis of scholarship on performance, epic tradition and intergenerational transmission. Studies of Manas and Turkish hikâye provide comparative questions to be tested against Uzbek material. The article proposes a three-level model distinguishing textual evidence, the performance event and the reproduction of tradition. Without a performance recording, categorical claims about audience responses or the singer’s intentions remain unwarranted. The practical recommendation is to link audiovisual records to transcriptions, performance metadata and information about teacher–apprentice relationships. The model is a methodological proposal for subsequent empirical testing rather than a finding from new fieldwork.