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Music in Jammu division is diverse with essence of both mountains and plains. Musical instruments of Jammu include flute, ektara, dafla, sarangi, Chang, narsingha, kansiya etc. Traditional music includes: Karkan: Songs in praise of martyrs and gurus. Baran: Songs of valour and sacrifice; Bhaints: Devotional Songs in praise of Goddesses
Some local people believe that ladishah songs were used to be sung during the harvest season particularly exercised by nomads to get food in return. [ 1 ] Over the times with modern music revolution , the genre became less popular or almost unknown to the people, and subsequently it declined due to Kashmir conflict , a war that triggered unrest ...
The song-dance proceeding is known as Bach Nagma Jashan - Kid Dancer's Celebration. [3] The dancer is known as The Bacha - the Kid - usually a thin and graceful boy/man who dances, sometimes comically, is always attired like a woman in a multi-colored frock-like dress.
Morup Namgyal is an Indian folk musician, composer and dramatist, [1] known for his contributions for the revival of Ladakhi and Tibetan folk music tradition. [2] He is reported to have traveled across the Ladakhi region in the 1960s and documented the songs of the region which has assisted in the preservation of the regional musical tradition. [3]
Malika Pukhraj was born in Hamirpur Sidhar to a Singer family of professional musicians. [5] She was given the name "Malika" at birth by Baba Roti Ram 'Majzoob', a spiritualist, in the Akhnoor area, and named Pukhraj (Yellow Sapphire) by her aunt who herself was a professional singer-dancer.
"Watan Hamāra Āzād Kashmīr" (Urdu: وطن ہمارا آزاد کشمیر), officially known as the Anthem of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, is the regional anthem of the state of Azad Kashmir, administered by Pakistan. [a] It is based on a poem of the same name written in the mid-1960s by Hafeez Jalandhari. [1]
All India Radio Srinagar (AIR Srinagar) is a public radio station operating in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. [2] [3] All India Radio Srinagar broadcasts in Kashmiri, Urdu and Hindi languages. Formerly known as Radio Kashmir Srinagar, [4] it was renamed as AIR Srinagar following the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019.
The women singing use alliteration, emphasis, metaphor, and simile to tell stories through song. In the 1980s, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations expressed concern that as modern marriages were using songs from movies, there were less old people singing the traditional wanvun. [2] In some places, wanvun is sung to celebrate the end of ...