Music of West Bengal
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| Genres | Classical (Carnatic and Hindustani) - Rock - Pop - Hip hop | ||||||||||
| Awards | Bollywood Music Awards - Punjabi Music Awards | ||||||||||
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| Festivals | Purandaradasa Aradhane – Kanakadasa Aradhane – Hampi Sangeetotsava – Sangeet Natak Akademi – Thyagaraja Aradhana – Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana | ||||||||||
| Media | Sruti, The Music Magazine | ||||||||||
| National anthem | "Jana Gana Mana", also national song "Vande Mataram" | ||||||||||
| Music of the states | |||||||||||
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Andhra Pradesh – Arunachal Pradesh – Assam – Bihar – Chhattisgarh – Goa – Gujarat – Haryana – Himachal Pradesh – Jammu – Jharkhand – Karnataka – Kashmir – Kerala – Madhya Pradesh – Maharashtra – Manipur – Meghalaya – Mizoram – Nagaland – Orissa – Punjab – Rajasthan – Sikkim – Tamil Nadu – Tripura – Uttar Pradesh – Uttaranchal – West Bengal | |||||||||||
West Bengal is a state of India. It is part of the region of Bengal (along with Bangladesh), which has a rich tradition of Bengali music. The city of Darjeeling, which has a large number of Nepali people, is a center for Nepali rock.
[edit] Baul sangeet
The bauls are a mystic group of singers and musicials, immensely popular in the countryside. They perform using a khamak, ektara and dotara
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