Publication of Summer Issue 2015 of JBS, Vol.4 No.1, Themed on Bengali Music: Bengalis and Music on the Occasion of Buddhapurnima

After the proud publications of our issues on Ognijug (Vol. 1, No.1), Bengali Cinema (Vol.1, No.2), Bengali Theatre (Vol.2, No.1), Science and Technology in History: Modern Bengali Perspectives (Vol.2, No.2), Literature and Movements: Bengali Crossroads (Vol.3, No.1) Kolkata (Vol.3, No.2), Journal of Bengali Studies is happy to announce the online publication of its Summer Issue 2015 (Vol.4, No.1) on the theme of Bengali Music: Bengalis and Music on the occasion of Buddhapurnima, 4 May 2015. You can read the issue from here

ISSN: 2277-9426    

Journal of Bengali Studies

Vol. 4, No. 1 

4 May 2015

Buddhapurnima, 20 Boishakh 1422

Summer Issue

Bengali Music: Bengalis and Music

Editor: Tamal Dasgupta

            

Contents

Editorial 7

Article

From Songs of Innocence to Songs of Experience: The Trajectory of Bengali Popular Music from 1980s to the Present

Tamal Dasgupta 10

Indic Philosophy in Bengali Religious Songs

Somnath Sarkar 42

Hindu Reformism and the Comic Songs of Dwijendralal Roy in Colonial Bengal

Ayon Halder 52

Searching for Moner Manush (Man of Heart): Bauls of Bengal and Fakir Lalon Shah

Anirban Mondal 58

Music, Devotion and Religion: A Case Study of Charyapad

Dhananjay Garai 66

Kirtan of Bengal: An Enriched Tradition

Sayantan Thakur 73

Sarala Debi Chaudhurani, the Singer and Composer: An Unexploited Potential

Shrubabati Chakrabarty 87

Review

Father and Son: The Bengali Dynasty in Bombay

Mousumi Biswas Dasgupta 100

Workshop

Our Lost Friend: A Story

Amit Shankar Saha 104

Commentary

Bishnupur Gharana: The Bengali School of Classical Music

Nachiketa Bandyopadhyay 110

Footfalls of Yesteryears: A Brief Overview of Modern Bengali Songs

Gautam Sengupta 119