ELBECK'S FOLKLORE ACTIVITIES

Abstract

This article deals with the special attention to Elbek’s life and literary activity, his
work in the field of folklore and folklore study. An objective study of Elbek’s contribution in folklore
studies and highlighting theoretical and practical significance are considered the necessary issues,
because, like Abdurauf Fitrat, Ghazi Olim Yunusov, he could make a worthy contribution to the
formation of the theory of folklore, history and textology of folklore, poetics of folklore works,
folklore creativity and performance, its local features, folklore and written literature, folklore and
professional art, folklore methodology.
The study of folklore of such jadid authors as Elbek plays an important role in describing the history
of formation and development of Uzbek folklore as a science, defining its stages of development,
theoretical directions, the essence of folklore, its factors and signs of artistic development. This opens
a wide way for the separate development of the history and criticism of Uzbek folklore.
Elbek - Mashriq Yusupov was one of the selfless Uzbek intellectuals who worked hard to preserve
the language and ancient traditions of our nation, to pass it on from generation to generation. At the
same time, he became famous as an Uzbek linguist and folklorist as well.