1) Kazakhstani music 
Aytys (айтыс, IPA) or Aytysh (айтыш ɑjtɯ́ʃ) is a song competition held between two aqyns. Each usually strums a national instrument (dombra in the case of the Kazakhs, qomuz in the case of the Kyrgyz), and they respond to each other in spontaneous rhyming verse on a range of topics. They may make backhanded political statements, crit...