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#1 amardeep

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Posted 12 June 2011 - 08:32 PM

A new journal has been released where scholars from different fields write about music from panjab. There are to interesting papers from a sikh point of view, one on kirtan and the other on the dhadi tradition

Kirtan:
http://www.global.uc...habadKirtan.pdf

Dhadi:
http://www.global.uc.../5_DhadiArt.pdf


The one on kirtan gives a good insight into how the internal structure of the Guru Granth Sahib functions as a platform for a musical science. many fantastic informations which I was not aware of
Guru Gobind Singh Ji threw the most precious expensive of jewels into rivers. Why? To save Sikhi. today, some people are prepared to throw sikhi into rivers, and save the jewels.

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