Tassa Thunder: Folk Music from India to the Caribbean from bhojpuri birha new video Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 32 min 24 sec ✓ Published: 18-Mar-2014
Description: This 53-minute video documentary explores Indo-Caribbean music culture through focusing on a set of neo-traditional music genres, relating them to sources and counterparts in North India’s Bhojpuri region and Indian communities in Fiji.Topics covered include chutney, chowtal, birha, nagara drumming, Ahir dance, the dantal, the Alha-Udal epic, and most extensively, tassa drumming. Tassa music is explored in reference to its rhythmic structures, its performance contexts of weddings, competitio
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