Answer the following questions:–

(a) What do you mean by folk music, according to the text?

(b) What does folk music reflect?

(c) How are mystical songs composed of?

(d) What makes the Bhatiyali an important genre?

(e) What are the reasons of great variety in folk music?

a. Folk music is a kind of ancient music that springs from the heart of a community, based on their natural style of expression uninfluenced by the dogmas of classical music and modern popular songs.

b. Folk music reflects the culture, festivals, views of life, natural beauty, rivers and rural and riverine life. It also reflects the social inequality and poverty of human life. In fact, folk music is the expression of joys and sorrows of common people.

c. Mystical songs are composed using the metaphors of rivers and boats.

d. Bangladesh is basically riverine. So, the Bhatiyali forms an important genre of folk music.

e. Bangladesh has a varied set of culture, festivals, views of life, natural beauty, rivers and rural and riverine life based on which folk music is composed. For this reason, there is a great variety of folk music.