Of roots and rootlessness: music, partition and Ghatak by Priyanka Shah

“…Ghatak brilliantly juxtaposes different genres of music , from Indian Classical Music and Rabindra Sangeet to Folk songs, to carve out the trauma of a soul striving for recognition in a new land while, at the same time, trying hard to cope with the loss of its ‘motherland’. …”
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BMNet-5: A Novel Approach of Neural Network to Classify the Genre of Bengali Music Based on Audio Features by Khan Md. Hasib, Anika Tanzim, Jungpil Shin, Kazi Omar Faruk, Jubayer Al Mahmud, M. F. Mridha

“…In this paper, we developed a unique technique called BMNet-5 to perform a multiclass classification of Bangla music genres such as “Bangla Adhunik,” “Bangla Hip-Hop,” “Bangla Band Music,” “Nazrulgeeti,” “Palligeeti,” and “Rabindra Sangeet.” We show the effectiveness of the suggested technique by extracting features from a dataset of 1742 Bangla music pieces and evaluating the automated classification judgments. …”
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