Baisangur Susurkaev: How One Man Kept Kyrgyzstan’s Epic Manas Alive
“`html Baisangur Susurkaev: The Kyrgyz Master of Epic Storytelling In the highlands of Kyrgyzstan, where the Tian Shan mountains stretch toward the sky, an ancient tradition lives on through the voice of one man. Baisangur Susurkaev, a modern-day cultural guardian, has spent decades preserving and performing the Manas, Kyrgyzstan’s national epic. This 500,000-line oral poem,…