hero Gorogly and his forty cavalrymen. The epic incorporates narration, singing, composition, prose, poetry and vocal improvisation, and also functions as an oral encyclopaedia of traditional customs and knowledge (including stock breeding, traditional healing, etc.). Its transmission plays an important role in the upbringing of children by helping...4 December 2015
Windhoek
first report on the status of the element ‘Al Azi, the art of performing praise, pride and fortitude poetry’, inscribed in 2017 on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding; Takes note of the efforts undertaken by the State Party to safeguard the element, in particular through its dissemination and promotion, suppo...3 December 2022
Rabat
d its organizations; Encourages the State Party to continue to safeguard and develop the skills of sung poetry linked to the Saman dance, including the use of the Gayo language; Requests that the Secretariat inform the State Party at least nine months prior to the deadline of 15 December 2023 about the required submission of its next report on...19 December 2020
Paris
nscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: Punto is the poetry and music of Cuban peasants, consisting of a tune or melody over which a person sings an improvised or learned stanza of ten octameter verse lines, with a rhyming scheme. There are two main variants of Punto: punto libre, a tune of free metre...9 December 2017
Jeju Island
n musical and choreographic practice with instrumental accompaniment that incorporates voice, music, poetry, and dance. Morna can be either sung or played only with instruments, mainly chordophones, including the guitar, violin, ten-string guitar, replaced with a cavaquinho in the twentieth century, and the ukulele. Several other instruments have n...14 December 2019
Bogotá
lement and raising awareness about the knowledge and practices associated with it, such as folk beliefs, poetry, song, dance, handicrafts, and others; Further invites the State Party to address newly identified risks for safeguarding, including eventual standardization of conducting worshipping rituals, and to ensure community representation in dec...3 December 2022
Rabat
14.COM 1.BUR : Examination of requests for International Assistance up to US$100,000
districts of the country’s southern province. Accompanied by music and a special dance, kuyabila is the poetry of the Tonga people that is performed during various social gatherings such as funerals, festivals, initiation rites, and other traditional ceremonies. It also serves as an educational tool in sensitizing community members to issues suc...21 March 2019
UNESCO Headquarters
16.COM 3.BUR : Examination of requests for International Assistance up to US$100,000
ic’: This eighteen-month project aims to safeguard the Oulad Mbarek epic, an oral tradition combining poetry and music that was developed in the eighteenth century on the borders of present-day Mauritania and Mali. T'heydinne, an element inscribed in 2011 (6.COM) on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, is...4 October 2021
Online
The Committee Takes note that Ecuador has nominated Pasillo, song and poetry (no. 01702) for inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: The pasillo is a type of music and dance that emerged in Ecuador in the nineteenth century, during the South American independence wars. It is a fusion of elements of...18 December 2021
Online
n and double bass were later incorporated. The singing is rooted in worship songs. Historically, lyrics and poetry were in Guarani, the regional native language, but today, oral traditions are transmitted in the yopará dialect, a combination of Spanish and Guarani. Chamamé music and dancing are an important part of the regional identity and play...19 December 2020
Paris