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Bengali folk music is greatly influenced by its environment and the occupation
of its people. The different forms of folk music represent the people who sing
them, the region they come from and the type of work they do. Lōka explores the
experiences and music of the Bengali workers who migrated from rural Bangladesh
and India to work in the factories and mills of the UK in the 1950s. This
journey is told sonically through the transformation of a variety of folk songs
and instruments, field recordings, archival material, historical narratives and
oral histories into an immersive 8-channel composition.
Part I: takes inspiration from the soundscapes and folk songs associated with
the livelihoods of rural and urban Bengali workers, who work as farmers,
boatmen, fishermen, cartmen, weavers and rickshaw pullers. It foll...
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