Boliyan
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Boliyan
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Boliyan or bolis are couplets that are sung in Punjab. Boliyan are often sung in accompaniment of bhangra dances. A boli expresses typical situations and their emotions. Usually a boli is sung and introduced by one woman, and then other girls form a chorus. These boliyan are usually passed down generation by generation orally. This forms a continuous and successive chain, each generation being taught by its predecessor. It is through this process that boliyan have been refined and passed on from
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Poetic couplets in the Punjab region
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boliyan
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2023-08-08T23:02:30Z
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