BHOJPURI CULTURE IN CHUTNEY MUSIC

Music of Indo-Caribbean Culture : Influences of Bhojpuri Culture in Chutney Music
It seems not much has changed since the time our Ancestors left ! (info courtesy Jon Budram).
Many Chutney Songs are traditional Bhojpuri Folk Songs or are influenced by them. Check this interesting Song : see if you can identify the Song or a few Chutney tracks of this Music Video and if they share the same musical composition.   Songs more than 100-150 years old are still in popular use within the Indo-Caribbean Music field and they all trace their roots back to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in India.

Have a look at the instruments as well which are used in India and the Caribbean.
The Harmonium oddly enough is actually of European origin and was imported to India whereas nowadays it is more associated with Indian music. 

SITTING MUSIC
Known in Trinidad and Guyana as "tãn-singing" or "local-classical music" and in Suriname as "baithak gãna" ("sitting music"), tãn-singing has evolved into a unique idiom, embodying the rich poetic and musical heritage brought from India as modified by a diaspora group largely cut off from its ancestral homeland...

Book : East Indian Music in the West Indies : Tân-Singing, Chutney, and the Making of Indo-Caribbean Culture by Peter Manuel. Includes a CD - see info HERE.

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