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	'''Moushumi Bhowmik''' (born 29 December, 1964) is an Indian singer-songwriter, writer and researcher based in [[Kolkata]], she is known to perform [[Bengali language\|Bengali]] folk songs, as well as her own compositions. She has released four albums― ''Tumio Chil Hao'' (1994), ''Ekhono Galpo Lekho'' (2000), ''Ami Ghor Bahir Kori'' (2001), ''Songs from 26H'' (2017).<ref>[https://m.facebook.com/boitoi.books/posts/moushumi-bhowmiks-new-album-songs-from-26his-available-from-boi-toi-songs-from-2/249447788792768/ বই-টই - Moushumi Bhowmik], Facebook</ref> She has composed for documentaries and art cinema. Bhowmik created The Travelling Archive, based on field recordings from [[Bengal]].<ref>{{cite web \|title=The Travelling Archive – Field recordings and field notes from Bengal \|url=https://www.thetravellingarchive.org \|website=thetravellingarchive.org}}</ref> Moushumi Bhowmik submitted her PhD dissertation on 'Songs of Absence and Presence: Listening to the Arnold Bake Wax Cylinders from Bengal: Listening to the Arnold Bake Wax Cylinders from Bengal 1931-34' at [[Jadavpur University]].		'''Moushumi Bhowmik''' (born 29 December 1964) is an Indian singer-songwriter, writer and researcher based in [[Kolkata]], she is known to perform [[Bengali language\|Bengali]] folk songs, as well as her own compositions. She has released four albums― ''Tumio Chil Hao'' (1994), ''Ekhono Galpo Lekho'' (2000), ''Ami Ghor Bahir Kori'' (2001), ''Songs from 26H'' (2017).<ref>[https://m.facebook.com/boitoi.books/posts/moushumi-bhowmiks-new-album-songs-from-26his-available-from-boi-toi-songs-from-2/249447788792768/ বই-টই - Moushumi Bhowmik], Facebook</ref> She has composed for documentaries and art cinema. Bhowmik created The Travelling Archive, based on field recordings from [[Bengal]].<ref>{{cite web \|title=The Travelling Archive – Field recordings and field notes from Bengal \|url=https://www.thetravellingarchive.org \|website=thetravellingarchive.org}}</ref> Moushumi Bhowmik submitted her PhD dissertation on 'Songs of Absence and Presence: Listening to the Arnold Bake Wax Cylinders from Bengal: Listening to the Arnold Bake Wax Cylinders from Bengal 1931-34' at [[Jadavpur University]].


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	==Works==		==Works==
	Moushumi Bhowmik has lived in many places since her childhood, including Shillong, Santiniketan, Kolkata and London, and extensively travelled in Bangladesh. Moushumi started her career as a journalist by joining ''[[The Statesman (India)\|The Statesman]]'' as a sub-editor. In 1996, she joined ''[[Bhatkal and Sen\|Stree]],'' a Kolkata based [[Indie publisher\|independent publisher]] on gender and society, as an editor and began and developed Stree's Bengali titles. Moushumi began to write songs in [[Bangla (language)\|Bangla]] in the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite news\|last=Ray\|first=Kunal\|date=2017-09-14\|title=Both part and alone\|language=en-IN\|work=The Hindu\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/interview-with-moushumi-bhowmik/article19683055.ece\|access-date=2021-05-15\|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>		Moushumi Bhowmik has lived in many places since her childhood, including Shillong, Santiniketan, Kolkata and London, and extensively travelled in Bangladesh. Moushumi started her career as a journalist by joining ''[[The Statesman (India)\|The Statesman]]'' as a sub-editor. In 1996, she joined ''[[Bhatkal and Sen\|Stree]],'' a Kolkata-based [[Indie publisher\|independent publisher]] on gender and society, as an editor and began and developed Stree's Bengali titles. Moushumi began to write songs in [[Bangla (language)\|Bangla]] in the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite news\|last=Ray\|first=Kunal\|date=2017-09-14\|title=Both part and alone\|language=en-IN\|work=The Hindu\|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/interview-with-moushumi-bhowmik/article19683055.ece\|access-date=2021-05-15\|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

	Moushumi Bhowmik formed a band named ''Parapar'' in 2002 with members from Kolkata and London. The band aimed to stress the continuity between diverse musical traditions– ''[[kirtan]]'', ''[[Bhatiali\|bhatiyali]]'', the blues and both Indian and Western classical music– blending them into a subtle and distinctive musical language. They also drew upon folk material collected by Moushumi from West Bengal, Assam and Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=The measures of solitude\|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/leisure/the-measures-of-solitude/cid/1013429\|url-status=live\|access-date=2021-05-15\|website=Telegraph India}}</ref>		Moushumi Bhowmik formed a band named ''Parapar'' in 2002 with members from Kolkata and London. The band aimed to stress the continuity between diverse musical traditions– ''[[kirtan]]'', ''[[Bhatiali\|bhatiyali]]'', the blues and both Indian and Western classical music– blending them into a subtle and distinctive musical language. They also drew upon folk material collected by Moushumi from West Bengal, Assam and Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=The measures of solitude\|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/leisure/the-measures-of-solitude/cid/1013429\|url-status=live\|access-date=2021-05-15\|website=Telegraph India}}</ref>
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	Moushumi Bhowmik's essays have been published in both English and Bengali in journals, both international as well as regional. Her essays have been included in several volumes on music and sound, including ''On Listening'' (London and Sheffield: CRiSAP and RGAP, 2013), edited by Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle and ''Poetics and Politics of Sufism and Bhakti in South Asia: Love, Loss and Liberation'' (New Delhi: [[Orient Blackswan]], 2011), edited by Kavita Panjabi.{{Citation needed\|date=December 2020}}		Moushumi Bhowmik's essays have been published in both English and Bengali in journals, both international as well as regional. Her essays have been included in several volumes on music and sound, including ''On Listening'' (London and Sheffield: CRiSAP and RGAP, 2013), edited by Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle and ''Poetics and Politics of Sufism and Bhakti in South Asia: Love, Loss and Liberation'' (New Delhi: [[Orient Blackswan]], 2011), edited by Kavita Panjabi.{{Citation needed\|date=December 2020}}

	Moushumi Bhowmik has written and translated for children,<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Search\|url=https://www.tulikabooks.com/search?search_query=Moushumi+Bhowmik\|url-status=live\|access-date=2021-05-15\|website=[[Tulika Books]]}}</ref> edited anthology of Bengali ~~muslim~~ women's writings.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Stree - Samya Books {{!}}{{!}} Book Details\|url=https://www.stree-samyabooks.com/ItemDetails.aspx?id=129\|url-status=live\|access-date=2021-05-15\|website=stree-samyabooks.com}}</ref>		Moushumi Bhowmik has written and translated for children,<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Search\|url=https://www.tulikabooks.com/search?search_query=Moushumi+Bhowmik\|url-status=live\|access-date=2021-05-15\|website=[[Tulika Books]]}}</ref> edited anthology of Bengali Muslim women's writings.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Stree - Samya Books {{!}}{{!}} Book Details\|url=https://www.stree-samyabooks.com/ItemDetails.aspx?id=129\|url-status=live\|access-date=2021-05-15\|website=stree-samyabooks.com}}</ref>

	==Discography==		==Discography==

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'''Moushumi Bhowmik''' (born 29 December, 1964) is an Indian singer-songwriter, writer and researcher based in [[Kolkata]], she is known to perform [[Bengali language|Bengali]] folk songs, as well as her own compositions. She has released four albums― ''Tumio Chil Hao'' (1994), ''Ekhono Galpo Lekho'' (2000), ''Ami Ghor Bahir Kori'' (2001), ''Songs from 26H'' (2017).<ref>[https://m.facebook.com/boitoi.books/posts/moushumi-bhowmiks-new-album-songs-from-26his-available-from-boi-toi-songs-from-2/249447788792768/ বই-টই - Moushumi Bhowmik], Facebook</ref> She has composed for documentaries and art cinema. Bhowmik created The Travelling Archive, based on field recordings from [[Bengal]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Travelling Archive – Field recordings and field notes from Bengal |url=https://www.thetravellingarchive.org |website=thetravellingarchive.org}}</ref> Moushumi Bhowmik submitted her PhD dissertation on 'Songs of Absence and Presence: Listening to the Arnold Bake Wax Cylinders from Bengal: Listening to the Arnold Bake Wax Cylinders from Bengal 1931-34' at [[Jadavpur University]].

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==Family and early life==
Moushumi Bhowmik was born on 29 December 1964 at [[Jalpaiguri]], a small town of [[West Bengal]], India. Moushumi's father Bhupendranath Bhowmik, who was originally from [[Pabna District|Pabna district]] of [[East Bengal]], moved to West Bengal for education and a job.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}} Her mother Anita Sengupta (Bhowmik)'s family was originally from [[Barisal District|Barisal district]] of East Bengal, but they settled in Jalpaiguri before the [[partition of India]]. Moushumi is the youngest of two children of her parents. Her elder sister Goutami is a mathematician. Moushumi Bhowmik lived in [[Shillong]] for the first sixteen years of her life, with three years in between in [[Agartala]]. Later she went on to [[Santiniketan]].

==Education==
Moushumi attended Pine Mount School in [[Shillong]] and for higher school education was sent to [[Santiniketan]]. She completed her graduation and post-graduation from the Department of English, [[Jadavpur University]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Moushumi Bhowmik|url=https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=722037304516018&id=343494019037017|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-15|website=Facebook|language=en}}</ref> She has submitted her doctoral thesis on the ethnographic field recordings from Bengal of Arnold Bake,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Arnold Bake's 1932-33 Films and Audio Recordings from Bengal|url=https://www.thetravellingarchive.org/related-research/arnold-bakes-1932-33-films-and-audio-recordings-from-bengal/|url-status=live|website=thetravellingarchive.org}}</ref> at the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University.

==Works==
Moushumi Bhowmik has lived in many places since her childhood, including Shillong, Santiniketan, Kolkata and London, and extensively travelled in Bangladesh. Moushumi started her career as a journalist by joining ''[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]'' as a sub-editor. In 1996, she joined ''[[Bhatkal and Sen|Stree]],'' a Kolkata based [[Indie publisher|independent publisher]] on gender and society, as an editor and began and developed Stree's Bengali titles. Moushumi began to write songs in [[Bangla (language)|Bangla]] in the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ray|first=Kunal|date=2017-09-14|title=Both part and alone|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/interview-with-moushumi-bhowmik/article19683055.ece|access-date=2021-05-15|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

Moushumi Bhowmik formed a band named ''Parapar'' in 2002 with members from Kolkata and London. The band aimed to stress the continuity between diverse musical traditions– ''[[kirtan]]'', ''[[Bhatiali|bhatiyali]]'', the blues and both Indian and Western classical music– blending them into a subtle and distinctive musical language. They also drew upon folk material collected by Moushumi from West Bengal, Assam and Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The measures of solitude|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/leisure/the-measures-of-solitude/cid/1013429|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-15|website=Telegraph India}}</ref>

Moushumi Bhowmik composed for [[Matir Moina]] (The Clay Bird, dir. [[Tareque Masud]]), which won the Critics' Prize at [[Cannes]] in 2002 and Best Music at Kara Film Festival, Karachi in 2003. She has also composed and sang for some documentaries and art cinema films.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-08-13|title=Songs of Tareque Masud|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/arts-entertainment/songs-tareque-masud-125914|access-date=2021-05-15|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Why is Team Rainbow Jelly grateful to Moushumi Bhowmik?|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/music/why-is-team-rainbow-jelly-grateful-to-moushumi-bhowmik/articleshow/64332153.cms|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-15|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref>

In 2003, Moushumi embarked on a journey of recording and documenting the tradition of Bengali folk music, covering mainly Bangladesh and the eastern Indian state of West Bengal and some adjoining areas of Assam in the east of South Asia; even distant locations such as the Bengali/Bangladeshi neighbourhoods of East London. Moushumi is the co-creator of the field recordings-based project in Bengal called The Travelling Archive, where she explored new avenues of research and dissemination, including archiving and working with archival material, writing and publication, presentation-performance and lectures, collaboration with museums and art galleries, and launching a record label with selections of field recordings.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bhattacharya|first=Budhaditya|date=2013-02-15|title=The archive of separation|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/music/the-archive-of-separation/article4418941.ece|access-date=2021-05-15|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

Moushumi Bhowmik's work is in the Women's Revolutions Per Minute (WRPM) archive, a collection dedicated to music by women, now housed in Special Collections at Goldsmiths College, London University.<ref>{{Cite web|title=WRPM Collection|url=https://www.gold.ac.uk/library/special-collections/wrpmcollection/|access-date=2021-05-15|website=Goldsmiths, University of London|language=en}}</ref>

== Writings ==
Moushumi Bhowmik's essays have been published in both English and Bengali in journals, both international as well as regional. Her essays have been included in several volumes on music and sound, including ''On Listening'' (London and Sheffield: CRiSAP and RGAP, 2013), edited by Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle and ''Poetics and Politics of Sufism and Bhakti in South Asia: Love, Loss and Liberation'' (New Delhi: [[Orient Blackswan]], 2011), edited by Kavita Panjabi.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}

Moushumi Bhowmik has written and translated for children,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Search|url=https://www.tulikabooks.com/search?search_query=Moushumi+Bhowmik|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-15|website=[[Tulika Books]]}}</ref> edited anthology of Bengali muslim women's writings.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stree - Samya Books {{!}}{{!}} Book Details|url=https://www.stree-samyabooks.com/ItemDetails.aspx?id=129|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-15|website=stree-samyabooks.com}}</ref>

==Discography==
* ''[[Matir Moyna]]'' (2002)
* ''Ami Ghor Bahir Kori'' (2001)
* ''Ekhono Golpo Lekho'' (2000)
* ''Tumio Cheel Hao'' (1994)
* ''Songs from 26H'' (2017)

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|id=1184446|name=Moushumi Bhowmik}}
* [http://www.thetravellingarchive.org/home.php The Travelling Archive]
* [http://www.gold.ac.uk/library/collections/wrpmcollection WRPM Collection]. [[Goldsmiths, University of London]].
* [https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/interview-with-moushumi-bhowmik/article19683055.ece Interview with Moushumi Bhowmik]. [[The Hindu]].
* [http://indiaifa.org/moushumi-bhowmik.html Moushumi Bhowmik]. India Foundation for the Arts.
* [https://www.stree-samyabooks.com/authordetails.aspx?id=129&type=a Moushumi Bhowmik]. Stree - Samya Books.

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