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The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay New Series

1948

The best way therefore to apprciate the beauty and significance of the folksong is to listen to the singing of the song by the folk or better still to sing it the way the folk sing it. [...] The millieu of the folksong is the village and the life of the countryside. [...] It is sung by all the people by the educated and the illiterate by the battakari and the manddukar.2 The melody is slow in movement often in the minor key with a graceful wave-like rise and fall corresponding to the rise and fall of the human heart under the stress of passion. [...] Like a poet he searches the heavens and the earth to find fit images to describe her beauty--the sun and the moon and the stars of heaven the champa the chrysanthemum the abolim the lotus. [...] The poetry of the Mando is the poetry of sentiment; that of the Du1pod is the poetry of the joie de vivre of healthy physical living.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
74
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120155
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iv K. T. Merchant view
Konkani Folksongs
1-9 Lucio Rodrigues view
Some Thoughts on the Uplift of Hill-Tribes
10-27 L. N. Chapekar view
Interpretation of Hindu Mythology
28-46 V. M. Kaikini view
“The Ahirs of Khandesh and their Language”
47-68 K. P. Kulkarni view
The Anthropological Society of Bombay
i-ii K. T. Merchant view

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