The effect of modern songs on folk marriage songs: A case study among Bhil Mina

In India every community have their own way of living and the different and unique culture. Bhil Mina is a tribal community in Rajasthan and they comes under category of Schedule tribes. They have their indigenous culture and their way of livelihood is totally different from other communities. Wedding is a great event among them. It shows everything about marriage, social obligations, kinship bonds, traditional values, emotional, sentiment and economic aspects of the society. The marriages represents transformation of social structure in a dramatic way. Their customs, costumes, rituals, food and family system, ornaments, marriage system are totally different. In the past they are very poor and excluded by the mainstream society but in the present era they are highly educated and working in government and private sectors. They are influencing by the popular culture and adopting very fast. The young generation of this community don't want to follow their tradition and try to live in modern culture. By the adopting modern culture they are forgetting and destroying their own indigenous culture. This can be seen as the negative impact of the new and modern technology. This study try to find out the role of Hindi film songs on the traditional marriages songs among Bhil Mina community. The main focus of this research is to find out the effect of modernization in social changes and the internal transformation of their tangible and intangible culture among Bhil Mina community. This is very contradictory thing that is that the modernization and new technology is playing the positive or negative impact on their culture.