The primary objective of studying about this particular topic is my interest to trace the emergence and path of its extension towards wider and at the same time inner-most peripheries of human society. The questions are quite clear; they are aimed mainly at the socio-cultural position of this exact kind of music in today’s Bengali society. Rock Music, as I will explain a little further on, has encroached upon the highly placid yet curiously shifting and internalizing elements of our society. The Bengali elitism is slowly being massified as Rock Music starts to find audience among all strata of economic placements.
As its history of emergence becomes clearer, it becomes less complicated to grasp its sociological contexts. And the fact that Bengal, once again, proves to be the home of this intellectual, revolutionary, cultural and politically estranged but strongly aware of the air of it, youth. I wanted to disentangle the myth surrounding this genre of music, as that of being loud, noisy, unmusical, slapdash, anti-traditional and crude. I have tried to reach to its audience to look for similar pleasures, and their notions of melody in this kind of music. I have made an effort to understand the establishment of Rock Music in Bengal, as a revolutionary component in our culture; and the reason behind its all-pervasive acceptance in such a protective and almost ethnocentric culture like ours.
Apart from a historical research, my objective was to participate with the Rock Music enthusiasts in the city, to study their attitudes and the simplest and most immediate social manifestations of it. Because, Rock Music has not originated in this landmass, there is always a scope of over-indulgence and distorted presentations of it; I made attempts to study those as well, through my respondents. Due to the lack of any preceding hypothesis, I had to look for almost all major and minor details of this movement, as I can now call it so. My aim was also to locate the typical third world reception of this global phenomenon, in Bengal. The fact that this entire system, arrangement and presentation of music is highly global in nature, gives a lucid prototype of the Mass Culturation of this particular type of music.
Therefore, my objective is to initiate a study in this highly neglected field of alternative music, specifically Rock Music in Bangla, which has revolutionized the thinking of modern youth. The research has been chiefly undertaken to understand and explain the reason behind this thesis-antithesis-synthesis of culture through this variety of music, which originated thousands of miles away from this land. Especially in a country like India, where we are so proud of our heritage…that we silently choose to overlook the not-so-subtle globalization process invading into our daily lives.
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