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  2. Folk music of Punjab - Wikipedia

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    Due to the large area with many sub-regions, the folk music has minor lingual differences but invokes the same feelings. The sub-regions, Malwa, Doaba, Majha, have numerous folk songs. [4] Punjabi dance OP Bhangra music which is a genre of Punjabi modern music invented in Britain by the Punjabi diaspora.

  3. Folk dances of Punjab - Wikipedia

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    Folk dancers from Punjab performing at six-day Folk Dance Festival ‘Lok Tarang, in New Delhi on January 19, 2007. Giddha is a popular women folk dance in the Punjab region. Giddha displays a traditional mode of performing Punjabi femininity, as seen through dress, choreography, and language. [7]

  4. Bhangra (dance) - Wikipedia

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    Bhangra (Punjabi: ਭੰਗੜਾ) is a type of traditional folk dance of Punjab area of the Indian subcontinent. [1] According to Manuel (2001), bhangra is especially associated with the vernal Vaisakhi festival, performed during harvest season between April and the first quarter of May.

  5. Bhangra (music) - Wikipedia

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    The roots of modern bhangra music date back to the Sikh Punjabi community in Punjab during the 1960s. An early pop music and modern recording group of this type of music in the United Kingdom was Bhujhangy Group, founded by Tarlochan Singh Bilga, Balbir Singh Khanpur, Gurpal, Rajinder Dhona and Dalvir Kahanpuri in Birmingham in 1971. [1]

  6. Luddi - Wikipedia

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    Luddi is a traditional folk dance of Punjab. [1] [2] [3] [4] It is performed in circles by both men and women while clicking their fingers and clapping hands, jumps ...

  7. Music of Punjab - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the UK, Punjabi music has also gained popularity in the United States. This inclusion of Punjabi music in popular culture has continued and become more salient today, as exemplified by UK-based Panjabi MC's “Mundian to Bach Ke” becoming a Top 40 hit in the United States, being listened to widely by non-Punjabis. [29]

  8. Kikkli - Wikipedia

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    Photograph of Punjabi women performing 'Kikkli', a traditional Punjabi folk dance. It is more of a sport than a dance for young girls. [4] Two girls stands face to face close to each other and hold their hands crossing arms with their bodies inclined back; [1] [2] [5] in this position their arms are stretched to the maximum and hands interlock firmly. [5]

  9. Pammi Bai - Wikipedia

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    Paramjit Singh Sidhu, professionally known as Pami Bai, is an Indian singer, songwriter and Bhangra dancer from Patiala. [1]He is considered one of the most notable figures in the world of Punjabi music specialising in the traditional folk dance of Punjab; Bhangra. [2]