, Research Paper
The names of the various styles and types of music
culturally associated with my country are at first there is
folk music and then there is urban music then comes all the
advanced music which is mostly are immitated from American
music. But the music that would define my country is folk music
and most of the folk music are sang by the poor people in the
country but some of the rich people also sings folk music but
they consider singing it as a hobby. But the popular folk music
in Bangladesh are sang by the people that were poor and got
higher in society by singing folk music. But urban music is
written and sang by regular people in Bangladesh. Before urban
music was invented or came to Bangladesh, folk music was
popular to everyone starting from little kids to older people.
But when urban music came and or was invented in Bangladesh
most of the people started to like urban music because it had
new instrument such as tabla, harmoniam, bashi and etc. All
these instruments are made and played in Bengali urban music.
But when advanced music came people forgot about folk music but
they did listen to urban music and they rocked with advanced
music. Advanced music is the same music that puff daddy sings
and Madonna sings and the music that is sang by all the other
popular singer but what Bengali people does is that they take
all the instrumental sounds from all the popular song in
America and they pay other people in Bangladesh to sing and
they pay them the half the money that they make. Now most of
the people in Bangladesh are into advanced music and most of
the advanced music is sang by guys that are 20, 21, 23 and guys
that drop high school and don’t graduate but they get into
music business.
Folk music can only be defined as voices and the people
that sang most of the folk music used nothing but an instrument
called “aktara”. But urban music can be defined as abstract
music with tone color, and some of them has accent. Most of the
advanced music is abstract music and has a beat, tempo, dynamic
and orchestration but 75 percent of the advanced music is
immitated from this country.
All of these music are danced to except folk music but
most of the people dances to urban music and the dance is
called indian dance because it’s immitated from indian songs
and people dances to it because they think it’s hip and it’s
fun. But most of the older people like my grand parents likes
folk music but hates urban and advanced music.
There is no different music in different part of my
country because the same music is heard and danced to in the
whole country but except in India because India is kind of
faster and kind of advanced in music than Bangladesh. So most
of the Bangladeshian music is immitated from all over the
world. But people that are poor doesn’t listen to no music
except listens to the people that goes around town and sings
folk music. Most of the people in Bangladesh that lives in
village still thinks folk music are popular and when they goes
visit the city in Bangladesh and which is Dhaka gets amazed by
all the urban and advanced music.
The instrument that is used in folk music is called
“Aktara”. Aktara is a coconut skull that has two wooden sticks
at the side and kind of shaped like a triangle and has a string
from the middle that is hooked to the two sticks at the top and
it makes funny noice which is very popular in Bangladesh. Urban
music uses tabla which is like a drum but it’s not. It’s two
little round thing which you got to hit with your hands to make
noices like drums but it’s similar to drum. Then there is
harmoniam which makes noice like piano but it’s half the size
of piano and then comes bashi which is the almost the same as
woodwind.
My family does listen to urban music but my grand parents
only listens to folk music. But my parents listens to little
folk music and mostly urban music and they love slow songs and
they have all the Madonna’s album and they likes a little rock
music. I listen to a little urban music because my parents
always listens to it in the car so everytime when i go
somewhere with them i get hooked to it but i don’t really
listen to it that much. I only like rap but the annoying thing
is that when Bengali people takes rap song and sings it in
Bangali language and sells it. It sounds really annoying so i
don’t listen to Begali advanced music.
The origin of Bengali music is the earliest known piece of
Bengali literature “Charyapada” used to be sung melody (or like
chants). As with any other forms of folk-art, Bengali folk
music’s evolutionary history is not very clearly understood.
But the reserchers says that Bengali folk music is not very
new.