Monday, March 18, 2013

Indian Folk Music Series - 4



Bhavageet

Bhavageet (literally 'emotion poetry') is a form of expressionist poetry and light music. Most of the poetry sung in this genre pertains to subjects like love, nature, philosophy etc., and the genre itself is not much different from Ghazals, though ghazals are bound to a peculiar metre. This genre is quite popular in many parts of India, notably in Karnataka and Maharashtra. 

This genre may be called by different names in other languages.KannadaBhavageete draws from modern Kannada poetry. Notable modern Kannada poets whose works have been set to music include Kuvempu, D. R. Bendre, GopalakrishnaAdiga, K.S. Narasimhaswamy, G.S. Shivarudrappa, K. S. Nissar Ahmed, and N S LakshminarayanaBhatta. 

Notable Bhavageete performers include P. KalingaRao, Mysore Ananthaswamy, C. Aswath, Padma Charan, H.K.Narayan, BalappaHukkeri, SangeethaKatti, H R Leelavathi, Sulochana, ShimogaSubbanna,RatnamalaPrakash, ArchanaUdupa, RajuAnanthaswami, Ravi Murur, and M D PallaviArun.

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