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Sonic Symphony
Sukanta Majumdar
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Helim Boyati and the Art of Melodic Reading
On 13 October 2019, I went with sound recordist Sukanta Majumdar to meet Helim Boyati of Rajibpur, Netrokona, to learn from him about jarigan and puthi-path, both forms of narrative song, the latter called melodic reading by David M. Kane in his detailed study of the form and its usage in Sylhet. Helim Boyati, a living master of these forms of narrative song of this region, talked about their current practice and described how things used to be in the past. He talked more about jari, but he also…
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Sudheer Palsane
Sudheer Palsane is a Mumbai-based freelance cinematographer whom Moushumi met in 2001 on the sets of Tareque Masud’s feature film Matir Moyna (The Clay Bird). Sudheer worked as cinematographer for the film and Moushumi as music director. A 1989 graduate of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, Sudheer mainly shoots documentaries and feature films and he has won many national and international awards for his work. He travelled with Moushumi in the early days of her field work a…
‘Accuse’ কাকে করবো?
মৌসুমী ভৌমিক
This essay comes as a response to a post on Facebook after the death of the singer and composer Kalikaprasad Bhattacharya. The post opened up complex and problematic questions of the appropriation of folk music by mainstream media, of divided Bengal and the hegemony of West Bengal, of the capitalisation of folk music, maintaining ‘purity’ of dialect and diction while singing, and so on. Questions which concern our work too, but for which we do not have conclusive answers. I am glad…