Jai-Jagdeesh - Pavan Pavan

ASHUG (from Turk. Ashik, lit. - in love) is a national professional poet and singer among Azerbaijanis, Armenians and neighboring peoples of the USSR and foreign countries. A. art is synthetic. He creates melodies, poems, epic. legends (dastans), sings, accompanying himself on a saz (Azerbaijan), container or kemanche (Armenia). In the performance of A. there are also elements of dramas. art (facial expressions, gesture, etc. ). Some A. are only performers. A. 's predecessors in Azerbaijan were ozans (other names - shuara, grandfather, yanshag, etc. ); in Armenia - gusans (mtrup-gusans, tagerka). The earliest information about A. is contained in the arm. historians Movses Khorenatsi, Pavstos Buzand, Yeghishe and others, in Azerbaijan. the legend "Kitabi-Dede Korkud" (10-11 centuries).