you know guys as a community we have to do better for our upcoming youth and generations. every other song is using jatt as a symbol of superiority and some greater than god person. By using jatt word we are showing we are superior and we believe in the caste system or whatever you wanna call it (clan,race,tribe) whatever bullshit. Our punjab is the land of our gurus and we have to abide by their teaching not some fake gangster jatt guy that isnt real in reality. Not all jatt have land, money, cars, houses. Most are actually struggling to pay all expenses and are taking loans and commiting suicides. Im a jatt and all i hear kids these days asking are are you jatt bro? like if the person isnt jatt should he kill himself lol? People have to humble themselves because everyone will die one day let go of ego and stop believing in caste shit. We are all one!
The film cast was revealed individually by Hamza Ali Abbasi. On advice of Bilal Lashari, on 16 November 2016, Adnan Jaffar and Shamoon Abbasi were removed from these cast after Asad Jamil Khan and Ammara Hikmat took over the project. In March 2015, Lashari announced that he is about to start the film shooting initially from Lahore. He revealed that film's story will be all new unlike the first part, but dialogues will be taken from 1979 film. On 8 January 2016, it was revealed that Fawad Khan will play the role of Maula Jatt opposite to Noori Nath played by Hamza Ali Abbasi.[21] The film is shot with the Red Epic W camera.[citation needed]
However, Moosewala and Aujla are not the only Punjabi singers to glorify guns, violence, and alcohol in their songs. While the fandom they enjoy, which can be credited to the popularity of genres like Punjabi hip-hop and gangsta rap, is unlike other Punjabi singers in previous years, the lyrics of their songs are deeply embedded in age-old structures of patriarchy and caste-based subjugation.
Another popular representation of masculinity in Punjabi cinema highlights the transition of the Jatt protagonist from regional to transnational. The protagonist in Punjabi films, much like the music videos, often belongs to the land-owning Jatt caste, whose masculinity is performed by his ability to move between different rural, urban, and transnational spaces.
Although many assume caste discrimination only affects people in predominantly Hindu, Sikh or Buddhist countries, I recently investigated caste prejudice in the UK for VICE, and discovered that it's a very real problem for Hindus and Sikhs in England as well. I spoke to people who had been abused by higher castes, and a girl whose parents had moved cities to escape the stigma associated with their mixed-caste relationship. I was also told that bhangra is bringing caste to the forefront of the British Indian consciousness, with a good number of the songs focussing on the many supposed positive attributes associated with being a Jatt. A spokesperson for the South Asia Solidarity Group, a British-Indian organization that campaigns for caste equality, warned that such lyrics could place members of the so-called lower castes at risk of discrimination and attack. "I think the whole issue of dominant castes including caste in their songs is completely wrong," she told me. "It's highly discriminatory and oppressive, and may well lead to violence."
These sentiments are echoed by Ravi Kumar of the Anti Caste Discrimination Alliance, a group dedicated to eradicating caste in the UK. "We have been told of examples of youths fighting at music events due to caste-based lyrics," he says "I personally experienced it growing up myself whilst in the West Midlands. You'd get a section of the audience who got extremely hyper when caste-based songs were played. It was almost like they were given a license to behave badly, to jump the highest, or to drunkenly assert their supposedly superior caste status on the middle of the dance floor. Sadly, on many occasions this led to altercations."
It is generally agreed that, as with most forms of discrimination, caste prejudice is perpetuated by a small minority, and that the majority of the British Asian population would rather leave the caste system behind in India. Although caste is mentioned in a large number of songs, there have also been attempts by prominent bhangra artists to eradicate references to it. The Anti Caste Discrimination Alliance launched a campaign aimed at persuading singers to be more responsible with their lyrics, and gained support from a number of prominent deejays. As a result, the BBC Asian Network's Bobby Friction refused to play any songs that reference caste for a three-month period. This move had a mixed response, with some praising him for his bold stance and others claiming that including the name of a caste in a song doesn't necessarily constitute prejudice.
JSL compares the use of the term "Jatt" to the "N word" in rap songs, and claims it's just an expression of identity. Some might argue that the difference is that black people in America are still amongst the most oppressed groups, whereas Jatts enjoy a relatively high status in both India and the UK. A more direct comparison would be the use of the word "Chamaar", which is one of the lowest castes. Whereas Jatts once had the monopoly on caste-centric bhangra, more and more Chamaars are now beginning to mention their caste in their songs as a means of evoking pride in their much-maligned background. Much like the use of the "N word" by rappers, this has divided opinion.
Others claim that referencing the Chamaar caste in songs is a means of uplifting a downtrodden group, and expressing the fact that they have just as much of a right to take pride in their caste as Jatts do. It is however notable that although there are some pro-Chamaar lyrics about the caste struggle, there are others that big up Chamaars and say how great their caste is in much the same way as the Jatts. With artists singing things like "the one who is not scared to sacrifice, the one who is the real thing is Chamaar," it's easy to see why Ravi thinks there's a danger that the rise of Chamaar-centric bhangra could be just as damaging as its Jatt equivalent.
This significant rise of Punjabi music can be attributed to a myriad of factors, one of which is the long-standing tradition of music and live performances. It is through music that poets have narrated love ballads like Heer-Ranjha, Sohni-Mahiwal, Mirza-Sahiba, and Sassi-Punhoon. The state also has a rich history of musical instruments such as tumbi, algoze, dhadd, and chimta. There are folk songs for every occasion. People sang suhag to express the bittersweet feelings associated with a wedding, tappe to celebrate Lohri and Baisakhi, and boliyan to sing while doing gidda, a Punjabi dance form (Bhatt 2018).
While discussing the popular representation of masculinity in Punjabi cinema, Gill (2012) emphasises that the transition of the Jat protagonist from regional to transnational is another contributing factor to such masculinity. The protagonist in the Punjabi films, much like the music videos, often belongs to the landowning Jat caste, whose masculinity is performed by his ability to move between different rural, urban, and transnational spaces. Unlike a Bollywood hero, the Jat protagonist goes through the process of glocalisation -- under which a highly localised representation is further accentuated and projected into transnational geographical and cultural spaces. This can also be seen in most of the popular Punjabi songs, wherein the Jat protagonist can be seen wearing a Tehmat/Tamba or a Kurta Pyjama (the traditional dress of Punjab) operating from a village setting accessorised with a tractor in the background in one shot, and then dressed in an oversized hip-hop jersey with multiple gold chains outside India (typically Canada or the United Kingdom) in the subsequent shot. As Jats constitute the largest group in the Punjabi diaspora, the celebration of Jat identity through rural imagery constructed through dance and music is a response to the deterritorialisation of urban and transnational migrations. This imagery reinforces the sense of being Jat through strategies of autophony, laying claims to land and landscapes, and social value attached to land ownership.
As a keyboardist, you will likely be called upon to accompany a vocalist on occasion. However, there will probably be times when the song they choose will not fit their vocal range if played in the original key (i.e., the one used in the recording).
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