Sona bandhu Jasim Uddin's favourite Bichet Song Abbasuddin video

Poet Jasim Uddin and Abbasuddin advocated Folk songs of Bengal/India from 1930 - Calcutta In 1922, Dr. Dinesh Chandra Sen of Dacca collected a small group of collaborators, and began gathering the ballads and folklore of East bengal. I was one of those who worked with him, helping to collect several volumes. Some of them were published with the english translations by the University of Calcutta; one volume was translated into French. Dr. Sen was a true scholar with a genuine love for folk tradition, and he did more than any man before him to awaken in the educated public a sense of its beauty and value..... I had been born and brought up in a village and brought up entirely by cultivators, and the folk-songs were in my very blood. To me, unlike Dr. Sen, the tunes meant even more than the words : they embodied the meaning of the traditional life I loved. They enchanted me with their beauty and power, and I was set on making the reading public understand what was in them. It was not only for the sake of the reading public, it was a question of preserving the life of the tradition itself; because the country people were visibly beginning to imitate the townsfolk, and liked what they liked. If the towns set the example of admiring the songs, the villagers would follow suit and take a pride in them; if the towns despised and neglected them the songs themselves would gradually die out of memory. So far, however,scholar had worked on our folk-songs in a scientific spirit. About ...