Mirroring the Socio-Cultural Ethos of Assamese Life: A Critical Reading with Special Reference to Assamese Marriage Songs
Journal Title: International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 4
Abstract
Folk literature has come to be identified as one of the priceless resources of an indigenous community. Folk literature not only reflects but also carries special characteristics peculiar to a respective indigenous community which bears its witness since the time it has displayed its existence. In this context, Assamese Marriage songs are one type of Folk literature which falls into this mentioned description. These folk songs are called Marriage songs as they are sung or played only on occasions of marriage ceremony. It is noteworthy to mention here that there is no any specific writer of the Marriage songs. Rather it is the reflection of collective emotions as well as the collective consciousness of Assamese people surfacing as or in the form of oral literature. Like oral literature, these Marriage songs are transmitted from generation to generation. However, as these marriage songs which is used to be oral has found its written form in the recent times. So we definitely get to understand how Assamese Marriage songs’ covers a broad area of study and can be relevant as a significant area of research analysis. Therefore, an attempt has been made to discover the different facets of Assamese Marriage songs which forms the basic objective of this paper titled “Mirroring the socio-cultural Ethos of Assamese life: A Critical Reading with Special Reference to Assamese Marriage Songs”. The study also aims to find how Assamese Marriage songs reflect and represent Assamese socio-cultural life. One important point to be mentioned here is that Marriage songs are widely in use by various indigenous communities of Assam. But keeping in relevance to the present analysis, we just try to cover and discuss the current or prevalent Marriage songs within the sphere of Assamese language and aspects.
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Lotika Saikia
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