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Ulzhan Baibussynova

Ulzhan Baibussynova has been played on NTS shows including Erased Tapes, with Talim first played on 13 April 2020.

Ulzhan Baibussynova (Улчон Бойбусунова) is one of a small number of Kazakh women to publicly perform the zhyrau repertory of both short and long epic poems. Zhyrau are Kazakh bards who use a raspy, guttural vocal timbre to perform various genres of oral poetry, accompanying themselves on the dombra, a two-stringed, long-necked lute. Ulzhan Baibussynova's inspiration was an older female zhyrau named Shamshat-opa.

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Talim
Ulzhan Baibussynova
Smithsonian Folkways2007
Talim
Ulzhan BaibussynovaSmithsonian Folkways2007
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