Volume 8, Issue 4

குளத்தூர் வட்டார ஒப்பாரிப் பாடல்கள் (Oppari Songs in Kulathoor Region)

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ச.சுபஸ்ரீ (Ref.No: 25438/Ph.D.K8/Tamil/Part Time/January 2018/Confirm/Dt:14.02.2022) பகுதிநேர முனைவர் பட்ட ஆய்வாளர், தமிழ்த்துறை, தந்தை பெரியார் அரசு கலை மற்றும் அறிவியல் கல்லூரி (தன்னாட்சி), திருச்சிராப்பள்ளி (பாரதிதாசன் பல்கலைக் கழக இணைவு பெற்றது) (S. SUBASREE (Ref.No:25438/Ph.D.K8/Tamil/Part Time/January 2018/Confirm/Dt:14.02.2022) Part-Time Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of Tamil, Periyar E.V.R. College (Autonomous), Tiruchirapalli, (Affiliated to Bharathidasan University) ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3064-1146

Abstract

Folklore is one of the growing fields in Tamil Nadu. Living literature is the innumerable unwritten literature that people have been praising and preserving orally. Folk songs are very old. Chief among the rural arts. It is the rhetoric that these folk songs are composed by the common people that gives us pleasure. Folk songs are a clear and unadulterated representation of the ancient art, culture, character, tradition, life, development and mass of a country.  These songs, which live in the language of the villagers, in stories, in festivals and entertainment, are an expression of the people's desire, hope, dream, love, disappointment and loss, and they highlight their joys and sorrows in the form of fun games. Birth, childhood events, love games, Oppari etc. are the subjects of these songs. Among them, this article examines only Kulathur regional oppari songs.

Keywords: Folklore, locality, hymns, tragedy, death.

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