इस क्षेत्र का अनुवाद अभी इस भाषा में नहीं हुआ है, इसलिए यह अंग्रेज़ी में दिखाया जा रहा है।
North Konkan · Western Coastal Strip
The sea as employer and as risk — waiting for a boat, the wind turning, the price at the auction, and the woman who runs the selling end of the business while the man is at sea.
कब गाया जाता है: Narali Purnima, weddings and launches. The commercial recordings that made these songs famous smoothed the dialect considerably; village singing is faster and less melodic.
Two-line verses about a woman's parents, her brother, her labour and her married household, improvised within a fixed metre.
कब गाया जाता है: At the grindstone, before dawn. Documented in very large collections precisely because the form was disappearing as querns did.
The water poured and the threshold crossed as the bride leaves her father's house — the East Indian community's best-known song, sung at the door itself.
कब गाया जाता है: The bride's departure at a wedding.
Address to the mother goddess of the marriage square, sung by the women painting the wall over several days. The song and the painting are one ritual, not two.
कब गाया जाता है: Marriage, while the chauk is painted.
Rival panels arguing creation, the nature of the divine and local politics in extempore verse, through the night, until one side runs out of answers.
कब गाया जाता है: Village fairs.
Praise of the prophet Elijah, sung in Marathi with Hebrew liturgical passages — the clearest surviving evidence of how far the Bene Israel had assimilated linguistically before the nineteenth century.
कब गाया जाता है: Vow fulfilment and thanksgiving.
Neighbourhood devotional singing twice a day for ten days, and the immersion procession songs that follow. The public form of the festival is barely a century and a half old and its repertoire is still being added to.
कब गाया जाता है: Ganesh Chaturthi.
North Konkan के लोकगीत — किस बारे में हैं, कौन गाता है और कब। (7)