Author Topic: JUGNI (Read 2184 times)

marjani_jugni · « **on:** April 07, 2012, 01:42:45 PM »

Jugni is an age-old narrative device used in Punjabi folk music. While literally it is the "female firefly", in folk music it stands in for the poet-writer who uses Jugni as an innocent observer to make touching observations

Biography

Chak de
O jugni notayi nakhre wali, jugni noti hai
O jugni notayi nakhre wali, saare pinda di ehe paali
Dil vich pyaar bulaande gaali
Oye phir mere ae ve jugni (chak de)
Bhai mere ae ve jugni
Phir mere ae ve jugni aa gayi je
O sab de dilan te chaa gayi je
(aha aha)

Description

Jugni is an age-old narrative device used in Punjabi folk music. While literally it is the "female firefly", in folk music it stands in for the poet-writer who uses Jugni as an innocent observer to make incisive, often humorous, sometimes sad but always touching observations

The popularity of Jugni has always touched the hearts of Panjabi mentality. She became a permanent part in the Panjabi folklore right since the ancient times. But who is Jugni? Nobody ever tried to find the veracity and because of it's simple Jugni-stanzas and simple versification, academic scholars never cared.

Jugni-poetry and Jugni-music took birth a century ago in 1906. Before that time, nowhere do we find any mention of her in history or the folk memory.
Punjab the land of the Sufis , the land where its Heer, Sahiban, Sohni , not to mention Dani Jatti , all female characters and the list goes on and on, make the folk lore Where Waris Shah and Bhulley Shah dominate along with Data Ganj Bakhsh then there is Mian Mir, Baba Farid or transcending the boundaries of religion Guru Gobind Singh Where Bhangra, Luddi, Tappe, Dholki rules.

Enters Jugni, an entirely revolutionary genre of music, never ever seen in any other culture. ..Jugni is a narrator , a female though who wanders through various lands and then sings her observations and comments about the land, the people and the events she sees.
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