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Popular Folk Music

Music of Nepal refers to the various musical genres of Nepal. For popular music (music produced commercially rather than art or folk music). Folk Music From Nepal (folk) Nepali Folk Flow and sway with the folk feelings. Emerging in the popular music media of Nepal in the 1950s was a music genre called Nepali lok geet or “folk song,” which drew on and transformed traditional In hilly areas of the Rapti and Bheri Zones or the southern plains of Terai, music and songs have been a way of Nepal’s cultural life.

One can therefore comprehend the whys and wherefores of the hypnotic recitation of a mantra, the simple and repetitive melodic structure of the jhyaure and the Bhimbadure songs, music in the context of a reality completely foreign and difficult to understand by Occidentals, but, by the same token, abounding with suggestivity and subtle messages.

compressed between the great powers of India and Tibet (China) has resulted in population which, despite its proximity to one another, speaks different dialects and practices traditions and styles of singing which are quite different from each other. Within each of these "micro-cultures" can be found influences originating in the most diverse territories and ethnic groups.

There are as many different styles of Nepali folk music as there are ethnic groups. The audience for those folk songs was and still is predominantly Nepali. Music of Nepal is similarly varied, with Nepalese pop music, Nepalese religious music, Nepalese classical music and Nepalese folk.

The folk song of Nepal most popular among the Westerners is undoubetdly
Resam Firiri…Resam Firiri…