Family Relational Songs of Our Villages – A Study Based on The Villages of Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh

M Venkatalakshmamma; N Munirathnamma

Volume : IV, Issue : IV, April - 2014

Family Relational Songs of Our Villages – A Study Based on The Villages of Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh

M Venkatalakshmamma, N Munirathnamma

Abstract :

Family is a unit of Indian system of culture and it is a man’s first school. Indians give strong values to family relationships. It is our culture that has been followed from olden days. In earlier days and in some parts of India still, there are joint families. Joint families comprise many people. Father, mother, children, grand parents, grand children etc. In these families, there will be a strict hierarchy. The elder person in the family will be the master of the family. Ladies do household works, look after their children, take care of their husband and parents etc. All friends and relations and cousins attend to the function. In the villages of Kurnool district, for all the festivals and functions they will invite sister–in laws. For whichever the festival it may be they will give preference to daughters, sisters, cousin sisters. Unless they come the festival or function won’t be complete. So they will invite daughters and sisters to all festivals, marriages, naming ceremonies, engagements, Gruhapraveshas and even when they ing crop to home. In all these situations when they ing their daughters, they will sing the songs as folk science