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Bengali singer (b. 1921, d. 2009) famed for his mastery of Bangla Puratoni Gan (Bengali traditional songs). View wiki
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shyama Sangeet is a genre of Bengalidevotional songs dedicated to the Hindu goddess Shyama or Kali. It is also known asShaktagiti.
Shyama Sangeet appeals to the common man because it is a musicalrepresentation of the relationship of eternal and sublime love andcare between the mother and her child. It is free of the commonrituals of worship and also the esoteric practice of the Tantra.
Origin
During the 12th-13th centuries when Shaktism grew in Bengal, it inspired a numberof poets to compose poems on Kali. Mukundarāma, known as Kavikaṅkaṇor 'gem of poets,' wrote his chief poem, the epic Chaṇḍī, in 1589.Towards the middle of the 18th century, the poet Ramprasad Seninstilled new life into it and turned it into a distinct genre ofBengali songs.
Ramprasad was succeeded by number of composers like KamlakantaBhattacharya (1772-1821), Rasikchandra Ray (1820-1893), RamchandraDatta (1861-1899), and Nilakantha Mukhopadhyaya. In modern timesboth Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi NazrulIslam have composed poems of Shyama Sangeet genre.
The term 'Shyama' refers to the skin color of Kali (usuallydepicted in black or deep blue.) Literally, it means dusky (orwheatish).
Divisions
Shyamasangeet can be divided into two streams: devotional ormetaphysical and Umasangit, Agamani orVijaya songs. The first category of songs is inspired bydevotion and spiritual thoughts. The second category which is basedon themes of daily family matters or social events, is known asPadavali, Umasangit, Agamani orVijaya songs.
Popularity
Shyama Sangeet conceptualizes Goddess Kali as a loving humanmother and the singer is longing for The Mother’s love. The songshave become popular not only for it’s devotional side, but also forit’s human appeal.
The theme and occasion of Āgāmanī and Vijayā songs are asfollows. Umā or Gaurī, daughter of Himālaya and Menakā, was marriedto Śiva, the Lord of Kailāsa. The Goddess Durga comes to see herparents from her in laws every year. The goddess is portrayed hereas an ordinary girl living far away from her mother and feelsjoyous to come back home after a long stay at her in laws’ place.These songs too are highly popular because of their human appealand as they are easily identifiable with any married girl livingfar away from their parents.
What Edward Thompson wrote in 1923 is true even today.
But the Śākta poems are a different matter. These have gone tothe heart of a people as few poets' work has done. Such songs asthe exquisite 'This day will surely pass, Mother, this day willpass,' I have heard from coolies on the road or workers in thepaddy fields; I have heard it by broad rivers at sunset, when theparrots were flying to roost and the village folk thronging frommarketing to the ferry. Once I asked the top class in a mofussilhigh school to write out a song of Rabindranath Tagore's; two boysout of forty succeeded, a result which I consider showed the veryreal diffusion of his songs. But, when I asked for a song ofRāmprasād's, every boy except two responded. Truly, a poet who isknown both by work and name to boys between fourteen and eighteen,is a national poet. Tagore's songs are heard in Calcutta streets,and have been widely spread by the student community and the BrahmoSamaj; but in the villages of Bengal they are unknown, whileRāmprasād's are heard everywhere. 'The peasants and the paṇḍitsenjoy his songs equally. They draw solace from them in the hour ofdespair and even at the moment of death. The dying man brought tothe banks of the Ganges asks his companions to sing Rāmprasādīsongs.[1]
Notes
- ^Thompson, Edward. J. and Spencer, Arthur Marshman, BengaliReligious Lyrics, Śākta, Oxford University Press, London, 1923. p19