MandoKonkani
Love, courtship, separation and — in a substantial minority of the surviving texts — grievance against landlords, priests and colonial officials, sung in a slow six-eight and in a Konkani heavily inflected with Portuguese.
कब गाया जाता है: Weddings, feasts and competitive festivals. Unusually for an Indian folk repertoire, the mando has been written down and published since the nineteenth century, so its authorship is often known.
DulpodKonkani
Village life at speed — fish sellers, gossip, drink, mothers-in-law. The dulpod exists to break the mando's formality, and the pairing is fixed.
कब गाया जाता है: Immediately after a mando, at the same gathering.
DeknniKonkani
A temple dancer and a boatman, and by extension the crossing between two worlds. Sung by Catholic performers about Hindu subjects, in a melodic idiom that borrows from both.
कब गाया जाता है: Stage and feast.
Dhalo songsKonkani
Household, harvest, fertility and the women's own concerns, sung in call and response between two facing rows over successive nights and never with men present.
कब गाया जाता है: Paush nights on the village mand.
Fugdi geetKonkani
Short cyclic verses that carry the accelerating breath rhythm of the dance rather than a narrative.
कब गाया जाता है: Ganesh Chaturthi and the monsoon months.
VoviyoKonkani
Blessing and instruction sung by older women as coconut milk is applied to the bride and groom. The ceremony is Catholic and the song form is the same ovi that Konkani and Marathi Hindu women sing at the grindstone.
कब गाया जाता है: The ros ceremony on the eve of a Catholic wedding.
Kunbi geetKonkani
Sowing, transplanting and harvest, sung by the community whose labour built and maintained the khazan fields.
कब गाया जाता है: Field work and Kunbi village festivals.
CantaramKonkani
Current politics, migration, price rises and language policy, written fresh each season and sung to a brass band. Audiences follow the songs specifically, and a cantar can move public opinion in a way the spoken scenes do not.
कब गाया जाता है: Between the acts of a tiatr.