An Introduction to Indian Folk Traditions: some important genres
Folk, Sufi
As early as 400 BC, Indian musical treatises had drawn a clear distinction between marga sangeet (music for the gods) and desi sangeet (music of people) and it is the latter that...
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An Introduction to Qawwali: the music of the Sufi mystics
Devotional, Qawwali, Sufi
Qawwali music is the main communal worship ritual of the Sufis – a mystic strand of Islam. The act of listening to qawwali, usually at the shrine of a past Sufi master,...
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