Volume : V, Issue : V, May - 2015

Communication for Development– Role of Folk Performing Arts

Yathish. L. Kodavath

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 The village people of those days spent their times usefully and purposefully. The laborer in agricultural  fields and in rural industries sang songs to overcome the weariness of their work. Folk media is a medium  through which the soul of a people expresses itself colorfully. Oral tradition and the Performing arts appear to be the  main media of communication. Storytellers, singers, minstrels and other kinds of folk entertainers have acted for centuries as sources for the transmission and dissemination of news and information through face–to–face live communication. The folk arts have been used for moral, religious and socio–political purposes in India right from ancient times.  Indeed, there have been schools of learning, courts of justice and discussion fore. It must be noted that folk forms  have specific, religious, communal, caste wise and linguistic dialects and bear values and associations that need to be  taken into account.

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Yathish.L.Kodavath Communication for Development– Role of Folk Performing Arts Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 5 May 2015

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