Baul

Baul ( Bengali: বাউল, Baul ) are (mostly rambling ) Musicians in Bengal. They form their own social, religious and mostly family- ended group. You are stuck for centuries in the rural culture of Bengal, established the split between India and Bangladesh region.

It is believed that they are strongly influenced by the Hindu tantric sect of the Kartabhajas. Nevertheless, there are a variety of elements that are in both the Muslim Sufi tradition of Shuphi songs as well as those of the Hindu bhakti movements. A principle of Baul philosophy states that the Divine is not to be found in the afterlife, but in every man himself

Although the highlight of the Baul movement may have been around the turn of the century from the 19th to the 20th century and the first decades of the 20th century, can still be found wandering musicians in the trains of Bengal or walking in the countryside. A center is around the place Shantiniketan.

The word baul vatul comes from Sanskrit and is about with " crazy " or " raptured " translate. It refers to the ecstatic music and dance performances of the Bauls, which represent a religious practice outside of institutionalized religion.

Baul was recorded in 2005 in the UNESCO list of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

Musical instruments of the Bauls are plucking drum ektara, the two-to four-string ( for double ) plucked lute dotara without frets, which is played with a Holzplektrum, the bamboo flute Banshi, the small boiler drum Duggi or the larger double skin drum, dhol, the cymbal manjira, bamboo or wooden clappers kartal and dancers ghungru the attached to the ankles metal clamps. The musical style of the Bauls is related to the bhatiali, the songs of the boatmen on the rivers in West Bengal and Bangladesh.