Wednesday 14 June 2017

East Indian Music, Dance & Fashion

Even in today’s society, East Indian music represents an essential aspect of Indian festivals. This includes firstly, the instruments the indentured laborers brought with them from India. To name a few of the more popular ones, these include the dholak, dhantal, tabla, harmonium, sitar, tassa, majeera, basuri, veena, dhol, jaal, mandolin, udukkai etc. 








Secondly, with these instrument, the musical culture migrated to Trinidad where East Indian musical techniques such as Classical, Semi classical, folk, light music and devotional compositional styles were portrayed. 



Thirdly, with aid of the music and instruments, there were the dance techniques which still very popular. These include kathak, kuchipudi and orissi.



A popular instrumental known to Indo-Trinidadian is that of Mungal Patasar’s Dreadlocks which incorporated both the sitaar instrument and that of the steelpan. Below displays the link this item.



FASHION
The East Indians introduced new fashions and clothing such as the sari, choli, kurtah, orhni, salwar kameez, garara, dupatta, gangri, pagri, and dhoti. 



Jewellery included the nakphul, bera, churia, and baju band, to name a few. These clothing are mainly worn around Divali, Eid-Ul-Fitr, prayers, weddings etc.



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