Jhumair or Jhumar is an Indian folk dance from the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar and West Bengal.[1][2][3][4] It is folk dance of Sadan, the Indo-Aryan ethnic groups of Chotanagpur.[5][6][7] It is mainly performed during harvest season.[8] The musical instruments used are Mandar, Dhol, Nagara, Bansuri.[5] This dance style consists of performers standing in a row holding hands, singings couplets, swaying their bodies, clapping their hands and occasionally adding timed jumps.[9]
Varieties
editThe Jhumair/Jhumar from different region vary from each other in style.[10][5]There are variety of Jhumar in the region of Chotanagpur such as:
Notable exponent
edit- Govind Sharan Lohra, folk artist from Jharkhand
- Mukund Nayak, folk artist from Jharkhand
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Jhumar of the West Bengal highlands". INDIAN CULTURE. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
- ^ "Jhumur Song: a Geo – Environmental Analysis - Ignited Minds Journals". ignited.in. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
- ^ "Jhumur and Nachni in the Folk Songs of Purulia". hdl:10603/300904.
- ^ Sinha, Manik Lal (1974). Jhumar of the West Bengal highlands. Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi.
- ^ a b c "Out of the Dark". democratic world.
- ^ "talk on nagpuri folk music at ignca". daily Pioneer.
- ^ Manish Ranjan (2022). JHARKHAND GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2021. Prabhat Prakashan. ISBN 9789354883002.
- ^ "अब नहीं दिखती फाग और झूमर नृत्य, खो रही है अपनी धाक". prabhatkhabar. 29 March 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ Gupta, Shobhna (2002). Dances of India. Har-Anand Publications. ISBN 978-81-241-0866-6.
- ^ Stephen Blum; Philip Vilas Bohlman; Daniel M. Neuman (1993). Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History. University of Illinois Press. pp. 224–. ISBN 978-0-252-06343-5.
- ^ "करम महोत्सव में बोले विधायक लंबोदर महतो, भाषा व संस्कृति है झारखंड की मूल पहचान". prabhatkhabar. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "मनसा पूजा पर देवगांव में झूमर संध्या का आयोजन, संतोष व उर्मिला ने समां बांधा, झूमे दर्शक". lagatar. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
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