Dengbêjî · the sung tradition
Dengbêj
دەنگبێژ
The voice-tellers of Kurdistan, who carried its history in song.
Chapter I · Listen
Every voice, in one room.
Chapter II · The tradition
A master of memory and melody.
What a dengbêj is, where the tradition comes from, and what it kept alive, as the Dengbêj thread tells it.
Sources the thread gives
Chapter III · The forms
Ways to carry a story.
Chapter IV · Çîrokbêj
The tale-tellers.
Where the dengbêj sings, the çîrokbêj tells: myths, fables and heroic tales, shaped by the room that listens.