Among the branches of music folk music is the most popular and a common item in almost all the countries of the world. In Bangladesh the appeal of folk music is very acute. Folk music means a customary song of the lips of general people. It has been being sung from the time immemorial from our posterity to posterity. This song is alive in the lips of the commoners of the world. It is basically a universal song. It mainly proceeds following fundamental flow. On many occasions in our country folk music is sung by our 'baul' singers with a great enthralling passion. The musical instruments become conventional always. Based on spiritual, pastworal and metaphysical subject and tune folk music is delivered. This is an overwhelming narration of rustic mode of life. Folk music having a strong patrotic zeal draws out tears from the listeners' eyes as it mostly tells about the saddest things of the past. Of course, the element of happy happenings is simultaneously present in folk music. Lots of people of our country still sit in the verandas after the very sunset for singing folk music with some self-made musical instruments and some local listeners gather round singers. Our folk music is a worth mentioning pride for us due to its exceptional artistic quality in the entire range of art. To save this valuable asset an integral consciousness should remain ever vivacious in our mind.
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