Abstract
This paper describes how South Asian folk music figured out from the ancient era and people discovered its individual form after ages. South Asia has too many colorful nations and they owned different culture from the very beginning. Folk music is like a treasure of South Asian culture. According to history, South Asian people established themselves here as a nation (Arya) before five thousand years from today and started to live with native people. So a perfect mixture of two ancient nations and their culture produced a new South Asia. This paper explores the massive changes that happened to South Asian folk music which creates several ways to correspond to their root and how they are different from each other. After many natural disasters and political changes, South Asian people faced many socio-economic conditions but there was the only way to share their feelings. They articulated their sorrows, happiness, wishes, prayers, and love with music, celebrated social and religious festivals all the way through music. As a result, bunches of folk music are being created with different lyrics and tune in every corner of South Asia.
Highlights
Since ancient era the development of art and culture is going on
South Asian literature and music can be explained by some book like Charyapad ; an ancient Buddhist “Punthi” and Natyashastra by Varat Muni (India), Dastan-e-Amir Hamza (Pakistan), Sangam (Sri Lanka)
It is a complete explanation of the internal thoughts of South Asian native people and only folk songs contains their poetry and melody
Summary
Since ancient era the development of art and culture is going on. Folk music is known as the fundamental element of art and culture. Our planet is roaming with 195 different nations whose are strongly connected by music (Albert, 1999) Though they have many types of languages, religions, foods, lifestyles but they are almost common in arts. Individual musical tunes raised and people living with a separated community made various styles of folk songs. It has evolutes with people’s taste, transmitted orally. Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives and Sri Lanka - these eight countries are known as South Asia together (Hiromi, 2012). They are very different in culture and each country contains variety types of folk music.
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