WHAT IS THE MUSIC OF GUJARAT?
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Gujarati folk music
Gujarati folk music, known as Sugam Sangeet, is a hereditary profession of the Barot, Gadhvi and Charan communities. The omnipresent instruments in Gujarati folk music include wind instruments, such as turi, bungal, and pava, string instruments. The ravan hattho, ektaro, and jantar and percussion instruments, such as the manjira and zanz pot drum.
Gujarati folk music consists of a wide variety. Bhajan, a devotional song type poetry are categoriz by theme of poetry/lyrics and by musical compositions such as Prabhati, Katari, Dhol etc. The Bard traditions of Barot, Charan and Gadhvi communities has preserved and enriched the folk tradition of story telling with or without music. This includes the forms of Doha, Sorathaa, Chhand, etc.
The songs and music accompanying traditonal dance forms such as Garba, Dandiya Raas, Padhar, Dangi and Tippani are unique in nature.
Dayro and Lokvarta are music performances where people gather to listen performer who delivers religious as well as social message through it. Marasiyas are elegiac form of music originat from Marsiya. Fattanna or Lagna-geets are light form of song and music play during marriages.