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Journal articles on the topic "Vocal music Sri Lanka"

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Abeyesekara, Geethika, and Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda. "The Musical Representation of Sri Lankan Kaffirs." ASIAN-EUROPEAN MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL 12 (December 13, 2023): 71–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.30819/aemr.12-6.

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This study presents a very small community within the Sinhalese context of Sri Lanka in light of academic interest: the Kaffirs. Their communal history reaches far back into colonial times, and they did not distinguish clearly from which territories in Africa these Kaffirs, an expression introduced by Portuguese rulers for slaves and servants brought to Sri Lanka from African shores, came and how they identify. Currently, Kaffirs are seen through the gaze of public writings and common biases. They are believed to have their performance styles and their strong association with the drum, dance,
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Dr, (Mrs) Suhanya Aravinthon. "Roots of Carnatic Music in Sri Lanka - Artistic interrelations between Sri Lanka and South India A." Smrti - Department of Indian Music : Annual Journal 1, no. 1 (2021): 90–95. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6550640.

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Each ethnic group living in a world of cultural design shapes their musical traditions according to their own heritage values. Music occupies a prominent place in the cultural fabric of every community. The Tamil speaking community in Sri Lanka is an organized society intertwined with art. The religious beliefs and worships of this community formed the artistic foundation. From this, many arts such as music, dance, koothu, drama, painting and sculpture began to appear and grow. As far as Sri Lanka is concerned, Batticaloa, Trincomalee and Jaffna are the areas where the Tamil people live, but J
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Peiris, Eshantha. "Historical Power Imbalances and the Branding of <i>Vannam</i> Dances as Sinhalese Cultural Heritage." Musicological Annual 60, no. 2 (2024): 67–79. https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.60.2.67-79.

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Vannam is a genre of music and dance associated with the Sinhalese ethnicity of Sri Lanka. This article takes the historical development of vannam as a lens to focus on inter-ethnic cultural politics in Sri Lanka and its postcolonial contexts, offering nuance to widespread ideas about cultural heritage and decoloniality.
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Jähnichen, Gisa. "The Role of Music and Allied Arts in Public Writings on Cultural Diversity: “People of Sri Lanka”." ASIAN-EUROPEAN MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL 6 (December 4, 2020): 93–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.30819/aemr.6-7.

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The Sri Lankan Ministry of National Coexistence, Dialogue, and Official Languages published the work “People of Sri Lanka” in 2017. In this comprehensive publication, 21 invited Sri Lankan scholars introduced 19 different people’s groups to public readers in English, mainly targeted at a growing number of foreign visitors in need of understanding the cultural diversity Sri Lanka has to offer. This paper will observe the presentation of these different groups of people, the role music and allied arts play in this context. Considering the non-scholarly design of the publication, a discussion of
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Fujie, Linda, and Wolfgang Laade. "Sri Lanka: Buddhist Chant II: Various Rituals." Yearbook for Traditional Music 26 (1994): 193. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/768276.

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Shafeen, Mohamed Ashath Mohamed, Arafath Careem, and Ashker Aroos. "The Role of Songs in Promoting Interreligious Understanding in Multi-Religious Sri Lanka: An Islamic Aesthetic Analysis." Journal of Usuluddin 52, no. 1 (2024): 171–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/usuluddin.vol52no1.8.

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The paper has chiefly examined the vitality of the aesthetic expression of the song and music to promote inter-religious understanding among multiple faith traditions that exist in Sri Lanka from an Islamic aesthetic point of view. It can be observed that there is a growing debate among scholars concerning the contributions of the expression of aesthetic aspects of human beings, especially song, and music, and their use of them for the harmonious relationships among the divergent communities of the nation of Sri Lanka. This entails a thorough study of whether the song and music can be utilized
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Meddegoda, Chinthaka Prageeth. "Hindustani Classical Music in Sri Lanka: A Dominating Minority Music or an Imposed Musical Ideology?" ASIAN-EUROPEAN MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL 6 (December 4, 2020): 41–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.30819/aemr.6-3.

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In Sri Lanka, the various groups of Tamils are jointly the largest minority group who migrated from different places of South India and in different time periods. South Indian music is widely appreciated and learnt by both the Sinhala including by large parts of the Tamil minority spread over Sri Lanka. Although a number of Sinhala people prefer and practice North Indian music geographically, and probably culturally, they are much closer to South India than to North India. Some historical sources report that Sinhalese are descendants of North Indians who are believed to be Aryans who migrated
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Samarasinghe, Kamani. "A Biographical Study of William Banda Makulloluwa's Contributions." ASIAN-EUROPEAN MUSIC RESEARCH JOURNAL 14 (December 19, 2024): 77–86. https://doi.org/10.30819/aemr.14-7.

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William Banda Makulloluwa (1922–1984) was a musician in Sri Lanka who made a significant con- tribution to preserving Sinhalese music. He dedicated his scholarly pursuits to the investigation of Sinhalese music and the cultural intricacies of Sri Lanka. Undertaking extensive fieldwork from the 1960s to the 1980s, he methodically documented and studied traditional music, with a particular emphasis on various communities in Sri Lanka. The objective of this study is to investigate the con- tribution of Makulloluwa’s musical style, expectations, and ideologies to elevate Sri Lankan tradi- tional m
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Ellingson, Ter, and Cyril de Silva Kulatillake. "Sri Lanka: Kolam--The Masked Play." Ethnomusicology 31, no. 1 (1987): 187. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/852317.

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Perera, Chamilya, Akila Jayamaha, Mark Orme, et al. "How to culturally adapt the pulmonary rehabilitation programme for people living with COPD in Sri Lanka: a qualitative study." BMJ Open Respiratory Research 12, no. 1 (2025): e002407. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2024-002407.

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Background Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is a low-cost, high-impact intervention for people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Despite the high prevalence of COPD, there are currently very limited facilities to provide PR in Sri Lanka. The views of people living with COPD, their caregivers and relevant healthcare professionals (HCPs) are essential to develop culturally appropriate PR, acceptable in a Sri Lankan setting. Objectives We aimed to explore the lived experiences of key stakeholders on the development and implementation of culturally appropriate PR in Sri Lanka.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Vocal music Sri Lanka"

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Abeyaratne, Harsha. "Folk music of Sri Lanka : ten piano pieces." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1213149.

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The purpose of the present research was to provide ideas for positive stress management in the orchestra world to help achieve high-level performances. The author developed the Orchestral Performance and Stress Survey and distributed it to 230 musicians of three orchestras that comprised full-time and part-time professional as well as community orchestra musicians. The survey sought to identify stress-causing and performance-enhancing factors in the orchestra environment. Questions on the musicians' background allowed for comparisons to identify groups with particular needs. Results show that
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Suraweera, Sumuditha. "Sri Lankan, Low-Country, Ritual Drumming: The Raigama Tradition." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Music, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3440.

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This thesis provides an in-depth account of the Low-Country, ritual, drumming tradition of Sri Lanka. Low-Country drumming is characterized by its expressive and illusive sense of timing which makes it appear to be free of beat, pulse and metre. This makes it special in respect to other drumming cultures of the world. However, the drumming of the Low-Country is marginalized, unaccepted and unexposed. Drawing on original fieldwork from the Western province of Sri Lanka, this study analyses the drumming of three distinct rituals: devol maḍuva, Kalu Kumāra samayama and graha pūjāva of Raigama, th
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Sheeran, Anne E. "White noise : European modernity, Sinhala musical nationalism, and the practice of a Creole popular music in modern Sri Lanka / by Anne E. Sheeran." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6505.

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Dassenaike, Nilusha Ranjini. "Sinhala folk music : its vocal traditions and stylistic nuances." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110696.

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This research presents the role and characteristics of vocal improvisation in Sinhala folk music, the music of Sri Lanka. This study examines the vocal nuances and expressions of Sinhala folk and identifies the idiosyncratic nature of vocal improvisation and how it is applied in Sinhala folk music. Considered a dying art form by practitioners, scholars, nationals and expats interviewed during this research, Sinhala folk music is scarcely practiced yet holds the key to the nation's musical identity. This study investigates the philosophical and social influences on Sinhala folk music in a hist
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Pereira, Juliana Neves Norte. "A Kaffrinha dos Burghers da Província Oriental. Uma etnografia no Sri Lanka." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/135550.

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A presente dissertação centra-se nas relações entre música, pertença e património produzidas em torno da kaffrinha, um género de música e dança que os Burghers da Província Oriental consideram como seu património cultural. A partir de uma etnografia realizada entre as comunidades burgher de Trincomalee e Batticaloa (Província Oriental), procura situar a produção de práticas culturais, sobretudo de música e dança, nos seus principais lugares de performance e de pertença, nomeadamente em casamentos. Numa perspetiva histórica, examina algumas das implicações do colonialismo português no Sri Lanka
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Books on the topic "Vocal music Sri Lanka"

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Manaranjanie, K. D. Lasanthi. Music and healing rituals of Sri Lanka: Their relevance for community music therapy and medical ethnomusicology. S. Godage & Brothers, 2013.

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Abeywickrama, Maya. Harmonious illusions: A study of Western influence on the music of Sri Lanka. Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2006.

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Claus-Bachmann, Martina. Traditional music culture in Sri Lanka - Dance (CD-ROM): A multimedial-interactive journey to an unfamiliar music culture. ulme-mini-verlag, 2000.

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Claus-Bachmann, Martina. Traditional Music Culture in Sri Lanka - Drum (CD-ROM): A multimedial-interactive journey to an unfamiliar music culture. ulme-mini-verlag, 2000.

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Merrick, Gordon. Now let's talk about music. Alyson Books, 1997.

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Kalalaya School of Dance & Music (Colombo, Sri Lanka), ed. Kalalaya. Sri Lanka Tamil Women's Union, 1999.

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Malm, Krister. The baila of Sri Lanka and the calypso of Trinidad: The mediaization of two kinds of music with topical texts, with special reference to their communicative properties. Swedish National Collections of Music, 1985.

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Piyasena, S. Kalu Jūliyē ridī jubiliya saha jemis gē nidahasa. Phāsṭ Pabliṣin, 2009.

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Music of Sri Lanka. Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2008.

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Musical Gift: Sonic Generosity in Post-War Sri Lanka. Oxford University Press, 2018.

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Book chapters on the topic "Vocal music Sri Lanka"

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Nanayakkara, Gowri. "The Sinhala Commercial Music Industry and Its Development." In Performers’ Rights in Sri Lanka. Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6668-0_2.

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Meddegoda, Nishadi Prageetha. "THE PRODUCTION OF TABLA IN SRI LANKA." In Refining versus Simplification in Transmission and Performance / Humans and their Musical Instruments as Part of Nature. Logos Verlag Berlin, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.30819/5685.09.

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North Indian music plays a considerable role in Sri Lanka. This paper discusses the assembly of the North Indian tabla, a pair of single-headed membranophones which arrived in Sri Lanka in the late 19th century. As an instrument of the Indian heritage, it is of great importance in accompanying vocal renderings in ensemble with other types of instruments in different genres. Sri Lanka has a capacious history of drumming and inventing drums such as ‘yak beraya’, ‘geta beraya’, ‘rabana’. Even though there is not much interest in the production of the tabla in the country, it still continues to ge
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Meddegoda, Chinthaka P. "THE MANDOHARP OF AMARADHEVA AND ITS USE IN THE 1980S AND 1990S." In Refining versus Simplification in Transmission and Performance / Humans and their Musical Instruments as Part of Nature. Logos Verlag Berlin, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.30819/5685.08.

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The discrimination of instrumental sound in the evaluation and appreciation of Amaradheva’s (born in 1927, passed away in 2016) performances lead to a big gap between praising vocal achievements and using his unique musical instrument that he created out of two, as he stated. This paper is to analyse this instrumental creation and the way how he used it. The reasons for its decline will also play a role. He could have used another musical instrument, such as the Indian svarmandal, but he preferred his own creation. The sound he tried to produce should sound well in the context of his singing.
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Michael, V. Michelle, and Satrajit Ghosh Chowdhury. "“Tamizha, Tamizha”." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts. IGI Global, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5817-1.ch007.

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This chapter examined Tamil film music as a vehicle for nationalist message production and intersectional ethnic discrimination. The authors sampled the history of Tamil nationalism in India and Sri Lanka separately and found evidence that converges such territorial nationalistic content on the grounds of a common identity marker—the Tamil language. Taking notes from Tamil film music, the authors critiqued the messages promoted through this medium and applied them to the socio-political state of the ethnic conflict brewing both in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka. Further, the auth
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Manuel, Peter. "South Asia." In Popular Musics Of the Non-Western World. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195063349.003.0007.

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Abstract The South Asian subcontinent, comprising India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka, encompasses a great diversity of musical cultures and styles. The multitude of folk music traditions reflect the linguistic, ethnic, class, regional, and religious diversity of the South Asian population, now surpassing one billion. The South Asian aristoc­racies sustain two "Great Traditions" of art music, the Hindustani, or North Indian, and the Karnatak, or South Indian.
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Weerakkody, Iranga S. "Sustainability and Re-invention: The Pot Drum in Sri Lanka." In Wie wir leben wollen. Kompendium zu Technikfolgen von Digitalisierung, Vernetzung und Künstlicher Intelligenz. Logos Verlag Berlin, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30819/5319.13.

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As indicated by archeological and literary sources, the pot drum has been a membranaphone of popular use since the Anuradhapura kingdom. It has been seen in various forms as Kumbha beraya, kala beraya, bummadiya or bimbisaka. This drum, being made out of clay in the shape of a gourd with an elongated neck or in that of a clay pot had a stretched skin of goat hide, monitor lizard hide or monkey hide. The use of these raw materials and how it brings harmony between the pottery industry and villagers in the processes of making the bummadiya is of importance. Through this research, understanding t
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Meddegoda, Chinthaka Prageeth. "Instrumental Ambient Music and Musical Entertainment in Sri Lankan Tourism." In Wie wir leben wollen. Kompendium zu Technikfolgen von Digitalisierung, Vernetzung und Künstlicher Intelligenz. Logos Verlag Berlin, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30819/5319.16.

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This research explores how instrumental music has been used as ambient music in selected popular tourist places in Sri Lanka. The domain of the study is confined within the coastal areas in Western Province where tourism is active at present. The places of catering, fast food, and various eateries and drinks have facilitated certain ambient music which is mostly chosen purposefully to attract and to entertain the guests. There must be a certain joint feature of opinions among food entertainers on matching food taste with instrumental music. The main purpose of this study is to explore how Sri
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N’ Weerasinghe, Pradeep. "Radio and Music in the Last Months of the Eelam War in Sri Lanka." In The Soundtrack of Conflict. Georg Olms Verlag, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783487423708-165.

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Palitha, G. A. C. Sri. "Sinhala New Year: The Banku Rabana and its Relationship to Food Culture." In Wie wir leben wollen. Kompendium zu Technikfolgen von Digitalisierung, Vernetzung und Künstlicher Intelligenz. Logos Verlag Berlin, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30819/5319.19.

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The main livelihood of Sri Lankan village life is the agricultural industry centered on the rice plant. This culture has incorporated a sub-culture surrounding food sprouting from this as well. Throughout history, the harvest brought home has been consumed in a festive setting. This is most clearly seen in the month of April, with the dawn of the New Year. The banku rabana is a traditional percussion instrument that is 3-4 feet in diameter and is made to represent the sun. Played by four individuals sitting around the rabana this is a custom spread island wide with variations indigenous to reg
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Punathambekar, Aswin. "Radio, Cinema, and the South Asian Soundscape." In The Oxford Handbook of Radio and Podcasting. Oxford University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197551127.013.33.

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Abstract During the 1950s and 1960s, Radio Ceylon, a Colombo (Sri Lanka)-based commercial broadcaster, produced a series of programs based on Indian film music. Broadcast via powerful shortwave transmitters, these programs reached an estimated 90–120 million listeners across the Indian subcontinent and as far afield as South Africa and parts of East Africa. Drawing on news archives and an in-depth interview with the renowned broadcaster Ameen Sayani, this chapter traces radio and cinema’s intertwined trajectories and examines the crucial role radio played in film publicity, exhibition, and dra
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Conference papers on the topic "Vocal music Sri Lanka"

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C. Ranasinghe, Kavindu, Shyama C. Kumari, Dawpadee B. Kiriella, and Lakshman Jayaratne. "Computational approach to train on music notations for visually impaired in Sri Lanka – Adaptive music trainer for visually impaired." In Annual International Conference on Computer Games Multimedia and Allied Technologies (CGAT 2014). Global Science and Technology Forum, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-1679_cgat14.09.

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Mendis, B. I. L. M. "Music Preferences across Different Socio-Economic Classes in Selected Urban and Sub Urban Areas of Sri Lanka." In 3rd International Conference on Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. Acavent, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.33422/3rd.icrhs.2020.09.186.

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Edirisooriya, Chithranga, Ransirini De Silva, and Raneesha De Silva. "Exploration of Gender Identity as Experienced by the Transgender Community of Sri Lanka." In SLIIT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCEMENTS IN SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES. Faculty of Humanities & Sciences, SLIIT, 2024. https://doi.org/10.54389/uooi1001.

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Amidst the socioeconomic advancements, the transgender community continues to endure marginalization, stigma, and discrimination. This persistent social reality underscores the urgent need to delve into the coping strategies employed by transgenders in navigating identity-related challenges and to assess the available psychosocial support systems. This study investigates perceptions of gender identity within the community and broader society, and the lived experiences of transgender individuals and their coping mechanisms. Employing a qualitative methodology, semi-structured interviews were co
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Senevirathne, S. M. D. N. K. "The First Buddhist Cantata in the World; Piriniwanmangallaya(The Death of the Lord Buddha),A New Approach to Modern Music in Sri Lanka." In 6th International Conference on Modern Approach in Humanities. acavent, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.33422/6mah.2018.11.35.

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Mukherjee, Tapati. "Focusing Cultural Affinity Among South Asian Cultures, Cutting Across Geo-spatial Barrier: Rabindranath Tagore and His Multi-dimensional Creativity." In XII Congress of the ICLA. Georgian Comparative Literature Association, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.62119/icla.1.8205.

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In a jet – set globalized world where change is the only con-stant as an aftermath of phenomenal progress in science and tech-nology, we are at ease to interact with various cultures, pertaining to various countries, nations and groups. But it is indeed amazing that even in the nineteenth century, a poet and litterateur of as-tounding magnitude in British ruled – India – Rabindranath Tagore, the first Nobel Laureate of Asia could visualize the idea of a one world across geo – political boundary. Notwithstanding his multiple visits to Europe and America, his fascination for Asian countries has
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