Sharma admits there are some extreme examples, but his Academy has set standards and criteria for song lyrics. However, there are complaints about folk songs being too explicit or provocative, even obscene. “They may be commercial hits, but they have mostly added to the continued appeal of the lok dohori genre.”
“We must change as the trend develops,” notes folk singer Chandra Sharma of the National Folk and Duet Song Academy. Read also: Tibetan music in Nepal’s sacred valley, Sewa Bhattarai Still, every Tij festival folk singers come up with new numbers in which the lyrics delve into contemporary issues like migration, patriarchy or even corruption in government. These days it is not as emotional as before.”Ĭultural historians agree that the commercialisation of the entertainment industry and the advent of YouTube and Facebook have cost Nepali folk songs their cultural value. We sang about love, happiness and sadness,” recalls noted folk singer Harimaya Gurung. “The rodi tradition had gone by the time we grew up in Gorkha, but our elders still sang the duets and we learnt it from them. After a hard day of harvests on the terrace farms, young men and women challenged each other with duets in which the musical repartee had to come within 30 seconds.
Inside buses on their daily commute Nepalis are used to listening to familiar-sounding songs that feature alternating female and male voices, responding to one another, often cheekily.Ĭalled lok dohori (people’s duet) this genre originated with the Gurung community and its tradition of the rodi ghar dance halls.
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