Music of the Mystics, An evening of Qawalli
Wednesday, 25 March 2020
- Time
- 19:00 - 22:30
- Venue
- University of Huddersfield, Oastler Building Room OA 5.5/01, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH
- Price
- £20, concessions £15
Join us for an evening of Qawalli, by local group Qaisar Mahmood and Party, learn about the history of qawalli and taste food from the Indian Sub Continent. This is an evening not to be missed. Tickets available online or from Radio Sangam.
More Information (Radio Sangam is not responsible for external websites)
The songs which constitute the qawwali repertoire are primarily in Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and Punjabi.[2] There are some in Persian from the Mughal era,[citation needed] and a smattering in Saraiki and dialects of north India like Brajbhasha and Awadhi.[3][4] There is also qawwali in some regional languages but the regional language tradition is relatively obscure. Also, the sound of the regional language qawwali can be totally different from that of mainstream qawwali. This is certainly true of Chhote Babu Qawwal, whose style of singing is much closer to the Bengali Baul music than to the qawwali of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, for example.
The poetry is implicitly understood to be spiritual in its meaning, even though the lyrics can sometimes sound wildly secular, or outright hedonistic. The central themes of qawwali are love, devotion and longing (of man for the Divine).
Venue
University of Huddersfield, Oastler Building Room OA 5.5/01
Queensgate
Huddersfield
HD1 3DH
Dates
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