Jaunsar

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Sanyukta Sharma
The people interviewed for this purpose include Surendra Pundir, writer and folk researcher based in Dehradun and Mussoorie, who has compiled books about Jaunpur, including Jaunpur ke Lok Geet (The Folk Songs of Jaunpur). There are detailed interactions with Anuradha Gupta, co-founder of Society…
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Sanyukta Sharma
Agricultural songs jungoo and dooah once resonated the forests of Jaunpur and Jaunsar region of the Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. In a pastoral society where people toiled for hours in faraway woodlands, these songs helped them communicate as well as entertain themselves. This short documentary…
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Sanyukta Sharma
Jungoo and dooah are agricultural folk songs sung by hill folks in the Jaunpur and Jaunsar regions of the Garhwal Himalaya. In a pastoral society where people toiled for hours in faraway woodlands, mostly in solitude, these songs developed as conversational ‘call–response’ songs with a melody style…
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