The art of Azerbaijani Ashiqs combines poetry, storytelling, dance, and vocal and instrumental music into traditional performance art. This art is one of the symbols of Azerbaijani culture and considered an emblem of national identity in Azerbaijan. Characterized by the accompaniment of the kopuz, a stringed musical instrument, the classical repertoire of Azerbaijani Ashiqs includes 200 songs, 150 literary-musical compositions known as dastans, nearly 2,000 poems, and numerous stories. Since 2009 the art of Azerbaijani Ashiqs has been inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The main genres of Azerbaijani Ashiq poetry include the dastan, ustadnameh and their poetic forms. In this case the divan, the gerayli and the tajnis. Goshma Goshma is the most common form of Ashiq folk poetry. The number of syllables in goshma can reach eleven. Goshma itself are also divided into several subgenres such as Gozallama - a form which describes the natural beauty and praises the remarkable properties of human speech, Kochaklama - the form in which the glorification of heroic deeds or the heroes occurs, Tashlama - a genre which criticizes social or human vices, and Agyt - the memorial chant. Dastan Dastan is a genre, known not only in Eastern poetry, but also in Western poetry (including traditional folk poetry). In dastans, ashiqs narrates heroic deeds, love stories or important historical events. Stylistic and syllabic relationships are in many ways reminiscent of the goshma genre, but differ from the last number of quatrains, subject, meaning and theme music. Ustadnameh Traditional themes in this genre consist of songs and teachings with moralistic themes #azerbaijan #azerbaycan #turkic #poetry #keşfet - @azerexcellence