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Origin and Construction of the Melodies in Baul Songs of Bengal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Josef Kuckertz
Josef Kuckertz*
Affiliation:
University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Extract

Thanks to several recent publications by Indian scholars, we are now much better informed about the life and the human-religious ideas of the Baul singers of Bengal. These descriptions are based on observations as well as on the statements that the Bauls themselves make in the texts of their songs. To shed some light upon the peculiarity of these “cultural and religious nomads,” a few remarks from the above-mentioned sources are repeated here as background.

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Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 7 , 1975 , pp. 85 - 91
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Copyright © 1976 By the International Folk Music Council 

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Notes

1. Bhattacharya, Deben, The Mirror of the Sky; Songs of the Bauls from Bengal (London, 1969), p. 23.Google Scholar

2. Mahapatra, Piyushkanti, “The Baul Cult,” Folklore; International Journal with Class Readership (ed. by Sankar Sen Gupta), April 1971, p. 130.Google Scholar

3. Bose, Sanat Kumar, “Baul Songs of Bengal,” Folkmusic and Folklore. An Anthology, (Calcutta, 1967), Vol. 1, p. 54.Google Scholar

4. Mahapatra, op. cit., April 1971, p. 126 and July 1971, p. 266.Google Scholar

5. Bhattacharya, op. cit., p. 27.Google Scholar

6. Mahapatra, op. cit., August 1971, p. 299–304.Google Scholar

7. Bhattacharya, op. cit., p. 32–33.Google Scholar

8. Bose, op. cit., p. 47.Google Scholar

9. Bose, op. cit., p. 55.Google Scholar