Saturday, April 26, 2008

Dhol Umriki Da

Punjabi folk music rocks!

Well, hip-hops anyway. For those interested, please walk on over to youtube and search for punjabi dhol + (any relatively popular rap/hip-hop song) you'll probably come across a whole load of second generation Indians living abroad all who play the dhol. It is a little bit strange, here there are these "ABCD-types" who are adapting bits of their own culture to that of the country they grew up in; while back in India it is the opposite. (Import of cheerleaders, cf.).

Irrespective. Here are a couple of links, check them out. I think the dhol's kind of cool...

Drop it like its hot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGOe6yq9KRA

Walk it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnpUQ1NTgt4&feature=related

1 comment:

colours said...

would appreciate links that are active. you can encode them in any words by selecting your words while typing and then clicking on the tab to add a link. guess u know that.
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