Folk

Indian folk music (Hindi: भारतीय लोक संगीत) is diverse because of India's vast cultural diversity. It has many forms including bhangr, lavani, dandiya and Rajasthani.

Experience the magic of Bah Kerios Wahlang, a folk music master from Meghalaya. His folk songs give a voice to the sacred forest of Mawphlang. If trees could...

The traditional folk music of India has a very rich legacy. Read about Indian folk music.

This collection of Indian music from West Bengal in the east, Haryana in the north, Kerla in the south, and Rajastan from western India represent the product of several centuries of a flourishing musical tradition. Whether a sacred melody or a snake charming tune, each of these songs feature ...

This page is about the folk music of India. It contains a brief introduction and discussion, videos, and related links.

India has a very rich and varied tradition of folk music. The extreme diversity in rural culture spawns endless varieties of folk styles. Each region has its own particular approach and repertoire.

Indian folk music is diverse because of India's vast cultural diversity. It has many forms including bhangra , lavani , dandiya and Rajasthani. Folk music…

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The voices of common Indians, of their aspirations, joys and sorrows find their expression in the soulful and rustic Folk music and dance of ...

Listen to indian folk tracks and watch videos of indian folk artists. Top indian folk artists: Bismillah Khan, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Musafir, Sheila Chandra, Amjad Ali Khan, Shivkumar Sharma, Manish Vyas, Sultan Khan, Nikhil Banerjee

Indian folk music artists list, with photos, ranked best to worst by votes. List of good indian folk music bands includes a filter so you can sort by the groups’s label a...

In Mauritius, the meeting between Indian worlds and Creole worlds, through the migration of the indentured labour which followed the abolition of slavery in 1834, gave birth to a style of music called ‘chutney’. As a result of the African influence on an Indian folk genre, chutney music embodies the transformation of a music for listening into a music for dancing. In this article, the innovations brought into the choreographical dimension of the chutney groups will be taken as a key to understanding the adaptation of Indian rural migrants to a new ‘Indian-oceanic’ way of life through the experience of diaspora.

Two young Indians want to widen the audience for the Manganiyars, a hereditary caste of Muslim musicians in the state of Rajasthan whose music is passed down orally.

From obscure villages around Jaisalmer and Jodhpur and Barmer in western Rajasthan, comes a musical tradition that has digested and belted out melodies from everywhere between Persia and the Punjab for several centuries.

India folk music owes its origins to the villages of India. This musical form represents the folklore and lives of the villagers. Indian folk music is

Beat of India brings the vibrancy and richness of the folk music of India to the World Wide Web. So that people from the world over can experience it and artists and listeners have a meeting point across boundaries of space and time