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'''Wanvun''', literally "chorus", is a style of singing used by [[Kashmiris|Kashmiri]] people before certain rituals such as [[Yagnopavit]] and [[marriages]]. It can also be used to describe a music session at which traditional songs are sung.<ref name="Arrange a Wedding">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VztLAAAAYAAJ&q=Wanvun&dq=Wanvun&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kkysUtO2IujIiAfQ44CQCQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ | title=How to Arrange a Wedding | publisher=UBS Publishers and Distributors | author=Raheja, Neeta | year=1995 | location=University of Virginia | isbn=9788186112281}}</ref>
'''Wanvun''', literally "chorus", is a style of singing used by [[Kashmiris|Kashmiri]] people before certain rituals such as [[Yagnopavit]] and [[marriages]]. It can also be used to describe a music session at which traditional songs are sung.<ref name="Arrange a Wedding">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VztLAAAAYAAJ&q=Wanvun | title=How to Arrange a Wedding | publisher=UBS Publishers and Distributors | author=Raheja, Neeta | year=1995 | location=University of Virginia | isbn=9788186112281}}</ref>


"Wanwun" is sung on a fixed beat, with a spoken word type rhythm. The tune is always the same, but depending on which event it is sung at, the pitch varies. The women singing use [[alliteration]], emphasis, [[metaphor]], and [[simile]] to tell stories through song.
"Wanwun" is sung on a fixed beat, with a spoken word type rhythm. The tune is always the same, but depending on which event it is sung at, the pitch varies. The women singing use [[alliteration]], emphasis, [[metaphor]], and [[simile]] to tell stories through song.


In the 1980s, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations expressed concern that as modern marriages were using songs from movies, there were less old people singing the traditional wanvun.<ref name="Indian Horizons">{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j8YnAAAAMAAJ&q=Wanvun&dq=Wanvun&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dEmsUo3CN4bAiQfc9gE&ved=0CFUQ6AEwBzg8 | title=Indian Horizons | author=Indian Council for Cultural Relations | journal=Indian Horizons | year=1987 | volume=36}}</ref> In some places, wanvun is sung to celebrate the end of [[Ramadan]].<ref name="Kashmir Village">{{cite news | url=http://www.kashmirreader.com/08042013-ND-a-village-where-%E2%80%98rouf%E2%80%99-and-%E2%80%98wanvun%E2%80%99-reverberate-after-iftar-19038.aspx | title=A village where ‘Rouf’ and ‘Wanvun’ reverberate after iftar | work=Kashmir Reader | date=4 August 2013 | accessdate=14 December 2013 | author=Ahmed, Mudasir}}</ref>
In the 1980s, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations expressed concern that as modern marriages were using songs from movies, there were less old people singing the traditional wanvun.<ref name="Indian Horizons">{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j8YnAAAAMAAJ&q=Wanvun | title=Indian Horizons | author=Indian Council for Cultural Relations | journal=Indian Horizons | year=1987 | volume=36}}</ref> In some places, wanvun is sung to celebrate the end of [[Ramadan]].<ref name="Kashmir Village">{{cite news | url=http://www.kashmirreader.com/08042013-ND-a-village-where-%E2%80%98rouf%E2%80%99-and-%E2%80%98wanvun%E2%80%99-reverberate-after-iftar-19038.aspx | title=A village where 'Rouf' and 'Wanvun' reverberate after iftar | work=Kashmir Reader | date=4 August 2013 | accessdate=14 December 2013 | author=Ahmed, Mudasir}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
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==References==
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.searchkashmir.org/2009/05/wanvun-that-old-chorus-song-of-old.html Wanvun - That Old Chorus Song Of Old Ladies]


[[Category:Kashmir Shaivism]]
[[Category:Kashmir Shaivism]]