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Kiddan BTF'ers, Checking in after a while. Slow activity (are most discussions on Instagram etc these days?), but maybe someone is around! For those who don't know me, I'm a scholar/ uni professor who has written a bit about bhangra and Punjabi music. I'm curious about people's experiences...

(Apologies if this is posted in the wrong section. Perhaps a mod can move it, if so?) Hello, Bhangra Teams' Forum community, I'm looking to organize a performance of bhangra and other Punjabi dance and dhol at my workplace, a college in South California. The appearance, which will be free for...

Dear Bhangra Teams Forum Community!: It’s been a while. Good to see that this site is still active. It’s always been a great community. Some of you may know me from the past as a sometimes scholar of Punjabi dance and dhol traditions, though my main focus has been elsewhere recently. For...

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I'd like to announce that an article of mine, entailing a rather detailed history of bhangra dance, has been published. It contains lots of information that was not in my 2010 dissertation (which was not focused on bhangra). Some highlights: -I review the earliest historical sources on...

Please excuse the cringe-worthy title of this topic, which I'll try to make sound a little deeper...though hopefully not too pretentious...with some elaboration. And I would hope that different aspects of the topic could be considered than previously. A discussion like this in 2008 became a...

The Aman Folk Ensemble (connected with UCLA) staged this rendition of something bhangra-ish. Not sure when -- late 80s? They must have had some resources from which to create it -- fragments perhaps. I wonder who, in the L.A. area, assisted them? I think this would have been before bhangra...

In this thread, I'd like to compile a set of visual (photo and video) examples of bhangra and related DANCE. People will have seen many of the videos before at one time or another, but to have them all together -- in a chronology, and with commentary and details -- will, I hope, give a sense of...

Please forgive the fact that this is not directly bhangra-dance related. However, some might be interested to check out a new academic publication about Punjabi music. What's more, it's FREE! :) Believe it or not, little research has been published on Music of Punjab. Much less in English...

Dear Friends I wanted to announce the "publication" of my work on "Dhol in Punjabi Culture." This is my 1000+ page dissertation about dhol-- its history, construction, cultural functions, players, etc. It includes the details of scores of different rhythms (in a form of musical notation). It...