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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 | '''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 | 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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[[Category:Kashmir Shaivism]] | [[Category:Kashmir Shaivism]] | ||