Kurdish Love Songs

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Associate Professor, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin

10.29252/kavosh.2009.2473

Abstract

The spirit of a nation is reflected in its folklore, which provides a perfect field for study. Kurdish folklore forms a major part of Iranian popular literature, including stories and poetry. Such folklore is developed within a nation and mirrors the feeling and lifestyle of the people in old era. If such works are not compiled and recorded, they will be soon removed from memories of the people. The present article is an endeavor to show the recognition of such necessity.
This article tries to deal with the history of poetry in Kurdish and Persian literature, spoken love songs or poems, the structure of love stories, the style of love songs, the difference between Beits (love songs) and anecdotes, love in love songs, classification of Beits, reciters of Beits and lyric poems, plus a few love Beits.  
 

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