W ith the onset of August, a full-blown campaign gets launched across the country, featuring music that is characterised as or the . These s should not be confused with the , which is a form of classical music sung basically without lyrics but is compact as far as musical requirements are concerned. These can be the notes or musical sounds that the musicologists have attributed to the power that invokes those.
Usually , , and are composed in various combinations of the ragas being sung. Attributed to Amir Khusro, the became popular and gained currency probably with the evolution of the It was later organised in a more strict discipline with the rising popularity of the in the Eighteenth Century. Various explanations are given for its development; one being that it is an exercise in musical virtuosity with little scope for distraction on account of the lyrics.
It could also be that as Persian was increasingly the language of the court and the intellectual elite, this prompted the imitation of its sonic patterns in musical structures. It may have been what later came to be recognised as rapping –where generally the sounds are dissociated from the meaning and sung with a heavy rhythmic input. In the post-World War Britain, the trend was initiated by people from the Commonwealth.
These early immigrants did not fully understand the English language. They were more responsive to the sound of certain words. By inserting a few phrases, offensive slang and bit of their native jargon.