Examination of Asik Davut Sulari Turkish Folk Songs in the Context of Values Education

Abstract

This research aims to determine the value themes in the examples of Turkish Folk Music registered in the TRT Turkish Folk Music repertoire and whose source person is Aşık Davut Sulari and to raise awareness in the context of the use of our Turkish Folk Music examples within the scope of values education given in Music, Turkish and Literature courses. The material group of the study consists of 18 Turkish folk songs registered in the TRT repertoire and whose source person is Aşık Davut Sulari. These folk songs, which constitute the central theme of the study, were determined through a literature review. The study has a qualitative structure, and content analysis method, one of the qualitative research methods, was used to determine the value themes in folk songs. As a result, 19 different value themes were investigated in the folk songs whose content analysis was made. As a result of the content analysis, the value that was found to be processed the most (in 17 songs) was the “love” value, and the values that were found to be processed the least (1 song each) were “mercy”, “compassion”, “modesty”, “forgiveness” and “austerity”. The folk song in which the most value was determined in the lyrics (7 values) was determined as “Vardım Kırklar Kapısına” and the folk songs with the least value (2 values) were determined as “Bir Yiğit Gurbete Düşse”, “Durnam Gelir Bizim Elden”, “Ey Hamamcı Bu Hamamı”, “Şepke’nin Kavakları”, “Yaban Gülü müsün Sarp Kayalarda” and “Yaz Ayları Geldi Geçti”. Another finding obtained as a result of the content analysis is that the values of “respect,” “sobriety” and “generosity” are not used in any folk songs.