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Vastupanumuusika – Kirde-India karbi hõimu retsiteeritud lugudest tänapäeva muusikani
Karbi etniline rühm elab peamiselt Anglongi piirkonnas, mis on läänest ümbritsetud Meghalaya ja ida poolt Nagalandi riigiga. Karbid räägivad tibeto-burmani keelt ja järgivad mitmeid religioone, mis hõlmavad erinevaid kristlikke usulahke, uut hindu religioosset sekti ja muidugi oma põlist usku.
1990. aastatel läksid karbi hõimu sisemised vastuolud sedavõrd suureks, et muutusid kohati lausa vägivaldseks. Seegi on palju mõjutanud nende kultuuri ja 2014. aastal kehtestati piirkonnas komandanditund, mis on pidurdanud Anglongi arengut. Karbi hõimu kultuurijuured on aga tihedalt seotud nende rikkaliku suulise traditsiooniga, mis on jõudnud modernsemana ka tänapäeva. Samas on nüüdisaegses karbi muusikas tunda lääne muusika mõju, mis algas juba 1970. aastatest. Samal ajal on India popkultuuri või nn Bollywoodi muusika läbi imbunud vanema generatsiooni vaimust. Muusika on noorte põhiline kommunikatsioonivahend nii maailmavaatelises mõttevahetuses kui ka oma kultuuri interpreteerimisel.
ERMis toimuv loeng kannab kahte eesmärki:
- Näidata traditsioonilise retsiteeritavate matuselugude ehk kacharhe´de (nutulaulude) ja mosera´de (karbi rahvarände ja originaalrahvalaulude) staatust ja funktsiooni.
- Illustreerida praegust karbi muusikamaastikku, kus on kohandatud läänelik muusikastiil karbi noorte n-ö pärismaise muusikaga.
Loeng on inglise keeles ja tasuta!
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Resistance Music - from chanted narratives to contemporary musical projects among the karbi of northeast india
The Karbi ethnic community is one of the major communities that inhabit the State of Assam in Northeast of India. They primarily live in Karbi Anglong bordering Meghalaya State in the west and Nagaland State in the East. Karbis speak a Tibeto-Burman language and they profess a multiplicity of religions that include different denominations of Christianity, new Hindu religious sects, and the most dominant of all, the set of practices that belong to the belief prism I call the Karbi indigenous religion. Coming from Karbi Anglong and growing up amidst inter-ethnic violence and politically charged situation due partly to militancy that characterized most of the ’90s of Karbi Anglong, the notion of identity always came with the heavy burden of cultural associations and tracing a definite history of cultural origins of the tribe, not adhering to what is imposed or otherwise assumed, characteristics of the tribe invested on by the political Assam State or outsiders.
Karbi cultural roots are deeply embedded in the rich oral tradition which continues to exist in the fringes of modernity. Cultural understanding becomes prominent only with the equal representation and promotion of a tribe in a multi-ethnic nation which is greatly affected by numerous affairs linked with social, economic, and political issues. Karbi culture exists in the context of a multi-ethnic India, and the chances of national recognition look unrealistic due to hegemonic power relations and internal politics. The oral tradition of the Karbi people is fast transforming and the building blocks of cultural traits are rapidly changing, and I state this in the light of “folklore as function”. The assertion of cultural identity is an ongoing process for the Karbi tribe, as the oral narratives which hold the key to their past and future are taking a different transformational curve in the present.
Contemporary Karbi musical landscape echoes the influx of western music that has been prevalent since the ’70s (among the educated elites) and continues to grow, while the Indian pop culture or “Bollywood” music has deeply percolated the psyche of the older generations. Bollywood music has greatly influenced the modern folk tunes of Karbi music starting from the ’90s mainly due to the instalments of the movie theatre, radio and tv. The consumption of soft popular culture “Bollywood movies and music” first began as a novelty and secondly due to its constant branding via nationwide broadcasting. Music is the basic communication staple for the youth in exchanging world views and interpreting one’s culture. Music creates the nexus of multifaceted dialogues between the ethnic, the west and central India, it reflects the continuities and discontinuities of belief systems, values and identities.
Karbi Anglong was once famous for its political unrest in demanding for a separate state caused by militants, regional political parties, student associations and militants which predominated the majority of the 2000s, the district was then labelled “The most bandh district” in the year 2014, curfew was a daily observance then. This hindered the economy, political and social regulations, and tremendously affected the youth.
This popular lecture will attempt two aims:
- to show the status and function of contemporary sacred chanted narratives through the traditional Kacharhe (funeral dirge sung for three days) and the Mosera (the Karbi migration and origin narrative) and,
- to illustrate the contemporary musical landscape through western musical genres adapted by Karbi youth and made “indigenous”. I hope to further evaluate the representation of musicians and explore musical space in the digital and social media platform.
Lectures are The’ang Teron and Margaret Lyngdoh from University of Tartu.
Lecture will be in English and it`s free of charge.