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Folk and Pop Music

Folk music consists of a people’s traditional songs and melodies. Folk songs deal with almost every kind of human activity. Many of these songs express the political or religious beliefs of a people or describe their history. Other folk songs simply provide amusement.

The ballad is one of the main types of western European and American folk songs. A ballad tells a story, usually based on actual events. Laborers create work songs to help their long days pass more quickly or to sing after work. Some union songs call for better conditions for workers. However, some folk songs, such as dance songs, nonsense songs are meant only to entertain. American folk music is noted for its energy, humor, and emotional impact.

Pop music has always been influenced by other forms of music: by jazz, the blues, classical music, ect. Another important influence is folk music.

Folk songs are the songs composed and sung by country people. The songs may be hundreds of years old, so nobody knows who originally composed them. Folk music is often music for dancing. In Britain it was traditionally played on instruments like the fiddle (another name for the violin), flute, bagpipes, accordion, concert, ect.

In the 1950 s and 1960 s the people who wrote songs and played them on acoustic guitars were also called folk singers. The songs were often “protest songs”, complaining

Jazz is a kind of music that has often been called the only art form to originate in the United States. The history of jazz began in the late 1800s. The music grew from a combination of influences, including black American music, African rhythms, American band traditions and instruments, and European harmonies and forms. Much of the best jazz is still written and performed in the United States. But musicians from many other countries are making major contributions to jazz.
“BOYSUN”
In May 2001 the UNESCO declared the cultural place of Boysun a “masterpiece of oral and non-material heritage of mankind”

Do you wish to travel into time; to be transferred to a forbidden territory that keeps the memory of the cultures of Greek, Baktrian and Kushan kingdoms that fell into oblivion; of heathen ceremonies of fire-worshippers and shaman cults?

Just two hours drive from Termez (center of Surkhandarya Region of Uzbekistan) in the direction of Boysuntogh mountains, and you can find yourself in a totally different world where centuries old way of life and relationship between people are preserved almost in primitive condition.

Names of villages such as Rabat, Derbend, Padang, and Kofirun sound like a magical music that promises travel into a fairy tale. Each family keeps ceremonies and hands them down from generation to generation.

The most remarkable thing is that Boysun is neither a myth nor a theatrical performance of the past days. Nor it is fantasy. This is a reality. A small land with people living in the past, does exist. Here, each holiday, each event in one’s life (birth, marriage, death) is accompanied with certain ritual ceremonies that are filled with specific meaning and keep the echoes of heathen creeds. Alpamysh, a heroic epic poem was composed in this very place, during the time of the Uzbek king Kungrat, on whose life the folk song was based.

YALLA
The ensemble Yalla was formed in 1971 by Botir Zokirov, a famous, talented actor and the founder of a national variety band in Uzbekistan. The group is made up of a select group of musicians, the followers of B. Zokirov, who were students of Tashkent Theatrical and Artist’s Institute.

One member of the group sang the song “Qiz bola” and the rest of the group repeated the refrain, which was “Yal-la , Yal-la” and this word determined the name of the group. They became a professional variety band of Uzbekistan.

With the appearance and leadership of Farruh Zokirov after his brother Botir Zokirov’s death, this ensemble has continued to grace the stage of art for more than 30 years. Eastern tradition can be noted in their music, dances, dress and in the devotion of their songs.

Independence allowed Yalla to travel to many countries. The stages of Euro-Asian countries were looking forward to seeing Yalla the first vocal- instrumental ensemble, the variety rock group of Uzbekistan. Farruh Zokirov is the leading soloist. With their songs and music they won the hearts of a variety of music lovers around the world.

Yalla released three truly outstanding CDs, “Uchquduk, the Face of the Beloved, and The Musical Tearoom ”. The group`s variety tunes can be heard from America to Australia.

As we remember Botir Zokirov, the founder of Uzbek variety band Yalla, we can still imagine him on stage – it is impossible to forget his face. His striking eyes were like large dark plums as they sparkled, surprisingly magnetic. He stood in front of the microphone with his hand over his heart – a gesture of humility and gratitude. It seemed Botir’s songs kept us frozen in the moment.