Folk Music: An integral part of everyday life in Southern Karnataka

Abstract

India inherits a rich culture and heritage with vivid art forms such as music, dance, architecture, sculpture and painting. It is found from the history in India more than sixty-four forms of art have been identified and nurtured till date. Indian music has greater precedence in the world. Music in primitive days marked their beginning with natural language and sound. Music was considered a means for communicating the feelings and emotions. Thus, the natural way of expressing the music gave rise to folklore which imitated the daily activities through songs sung naturally in native language without support of any specific instruments. India being a county with diversified culture and language has more than 100 local languages for which many does not have scripts. Here an attempt is made to bring few such instances of folk songs describing various instances of daily life in the southern India (Karnataka). Kannada being the communicating language has various variants local to the region of living.