Investigating social issues in the Uraman folk songs

Abstract

Iran does not only include various ethnic groups, but in inner of ethnic groups, is Multiplicity and varities. Part of Kurdish ethnity are auramies that residual In Hawramn region.the Goal of study is investigating social issues in the uraman folk songs. The statistical population includes the book (Songs of Ahurai) which contains 4240 verses of folklore poetry of uraman region. The research method is qualitative content analysis of the entire text. The results of the research showed that the investigated social issues include: themes of suffering, love, environment, religious and political issues, family customs, conflict, economic issues, stratification, and industrial concepts…, and the quantitative frequency of these themes indicated that suffering themes had the highest percentage (29.72) and the lowest frequency percentage related to industrial concepts with (0.23) percent. The analysis of folklore songs shows that there is a dialectic between oral literature and social life and in the absence of official literature, oral literature carries the mission of reflecting the problems and happiness of the society.

Keywords

• "folk songs"
• "uraman"
• "social issue"
• "content analysis"