Traditional Music

India
Traditional music expresses the central social values of a society. It serves as a symbol in many ways. It can represent nonmusical ideas or events, and it can underscore ideas that are verbally presented in opera, film and television drama, and often in songs. It also symbolizes human bonds, happy occasions, military, patriotic, and funerary moods and events.

Pakistan
Pakistani traditional music expresses the central social values of a society. It serves as a symbol in many ways. It can represent nonmusical ideas or events, and it can underscore ideas that are verbally presented in opera, film and television drama, and often in songs. It also symbolizes human bonds, happy occasions, military, patriotic, and funerary moods and events.

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