"Lebdeğmez atışma" or "Dudak değmez aşık atışması" in
Turkey
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, whose literal meaning in
Turkish is "two
troubadour
A troubadour (, ; ) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word ''troubadour'' is etymologically masculine, a female equivalent is usually called a ''trobairitz''.
The tr ...
s throwing verses at each other where lips do not touch each other", is the traditional and still practiced event of oratory match, a form of instantaneously improvised poetry sang by opposing
Ashik
An ashik (; ) or ashugh (; ka, :ka:აშუღი, აშუღი) is traditionally a List of oral repositories, singer-poet and bard who accompanies his song—be it a dastan (traditional epic story, also known as ''Azeri hikaye, hikaye' ...
s taking turns for artfully criticising each other with one verse at a time, is done by each first placing a pin between their upper and lower lips so that the improvised song, usually accompanied by a
Saz (played by the ashik himself), consists only of labial
lipogram
A lipogram (from , ''leipográmmatos'', "leaving out a letter" is a kind of constrained writing or word game consisting of writing paragraphs or longer works in which a particular letter or group of letters is avoided.McArthur, Tom (1992). ''The ...
s i.e. without words where lips must touch each other, effectively excluding the letters B, F, M, P and V from the text of the improvised songs.
See also
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Flyting
Flyting or fliting ( Classical Gaelic: ''immarbág'', , "counter-boasting") is a contest consisting of the exchange of insults between two parties, often conducted in verse.
Etymology
The word ''flyting'' comes from the Old English verb meanin ...
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Skald
A skald, or skáld (Old Norse: ; , meaning "poet"), is one of the often named poets who composed skaldic poetry, one of the two kinds of Old Norse poetry in alliterative verse, the other being Eddic poetry. Skaldic poems were traditionally compo ...
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Minstrel
A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. The term originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, acrobat, singer or fool; later, from the sixteenth century, it came to mean a specialist enter ...
References
Subtitled short video clip on lebdeğmez from Turkish National Television TRT
A duel between two well known ashiks Murat Çobanoğlu and
Şeref Taşlıova
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A short BBC Turkish article on these two ashiks* vide
search results for "Leb degmez"on
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External links
Âşıklık (Minstrelsy) TraditionIntangible Cultural Heritage Museum in The Heart Of Turkey
Constrained writing
Turkic culture
Turkish folk poets
Turkish folklore
Music of Turkey
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