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South Odisha & Ganjam · Eastern Coastal Plains
Praise of Shiva and Kali, alternating with the comic exchanges of the Hadi, Sabara and Chadheya pairs. The sacred and the obscene sit in the same night's programme by design.
कब गाया जाता है: Chaitra, through the Danda Nata month.
Puranic and local-heroic narrative, delivered by a singer with wooden clappers and interrupted by a second man whose job is to ask the questions the audience would ask.
कब गाया जाता है: Fairs, temple festivals, night gatherings.
The Satyapir stories, sung competitively — a lead singer and a chorus trading rhymed challenges, with the mardala setting the pace.
कब गाया जाता है: Satyapir observances and village fairs.
Krishna and the cowherds, sung to a fast dhol pattern while the dancers are on stilts.
कब गाया जाता है: Stilt dancing at village festivals.
Not a song so much as a conversation. A Sora shaman enters trance and speaks in the voice of the dead person, who argues, complains and negotiates with the living family in ordinary language. The exchanges were recorded in detail by anthropologists working in these hills and are the region's most unusual oral form by a distance.
कब गाया जाता है: After a death, and at memorial rites years later.
Work and courtship, sung antiphonally between lines of men and women, with the response line carrying the rhythm rather than the melody.
कब गाया जाता है: Sowing, harvest and marriage.
Ballads sung to the jamukula, a small clay drum — a Telugu narrative form that reaches its northern limit in the same villages where Odia reaches its southern one.
कब गाया जाता है: Village fairs in the bilingual belt.
South Odisha & Ganjam के लोकगीत — किस बारे में हैं, कौन गाता है और कब। (7)