Music Travels Around the World
Class 9 · Arts
4 ideas in Class 9 Arts, explained in plain words, with games and quizzes to practise.
Music Packs Its Bags
Part of: Travelling music
Migration moves people to new homes, and settled groups form a diaspora. Indians crossing seas packed melodies beside belongings, and those tunes kept language and identity alive abroad. Chutney music grew when Bhojpuri speakers reached Caribbean shores in the eighteen hundreds: dholak, tassa and dhantal drums married soca and calypso bounce, keyboards joined in, and Sundar Popo's hits made a dance-driven hybrid.
Why it matters. Travelling tunes show how homes survive inside songs.
Try it in two minutes
- Define migration.
- Define diaspora.
- Name chutney roots.
Try at home. Ask a migrant elder for a home song.
Bhangra Goes British
Part of: Travelling music
Bhangra springs from Punjab on thundering dhol and harvest joy. Settling in Britain, Punjabi youth straddling home courtyards and London streets wove reggae, hip-hop, pop and electronic threads into tradition. The UK Bhangra child runs fast beats, heavy bass, Punjabi lyrics and modern instruments, voiced by stars like Malkit Singh and the Heera group.
Why it matters. Migrant mixes prove roots grow stronger in new soil.
Try it in two minutes
- Name bhangra roots.
- Name four fused styles.
- Name two artists.
Try at home. Fuse a folk tune with a pop beat.
Lutes Across Lands
Part of: Travelling music
Lutes gather plucked strings across Asia and Europe on one plan: wide resonating belly plus narrow neck, dressed in varied stuff. West Asian ouds wear wooden tops while banjos stretch skin; Japan's shamisen, Puerto Rico's cuatro in seasoned jagrumo wood, and India's goatskin-topped sarod each localise the frame, and synthetics join today. Bowed cousin Ravana-hattha, born in Lanka's lore, still fiddles Rajasthani folk.
Why it matters. One shared shape sings in a hundred local voices.
Try it in two minutes
- State the shared design.
- Name two belly materials.
- Place four lutes.
Try at home. Match each lute to its country.
Flutes, Siddis and Flamenco
Part of: Travelling music
Flutes rank among oldest instruments, with dug pipes tens of thousands of years old; every one stays a hollow sounding tube. Movement flows both ways: African-rooted Siddis carried Dhamal dance-drumming into Gujarat, while Roma wanderers bore Rajasthan's tunes to Spain between the ninth and fourteenth centuries, flowering as flamenco song, dance and guitar among Andalusian Roma, even inspiring phone emojis. Families can trace such journeys by interviewing migrants about home songs.
Why it matters. Pipes and peoples prove music never stays home.
Try it in two minutes
- State flute age.
- Tell Siddi roots.
- Trace flamenco path.
Try at home. Write home-song lines in a journal.
What your child will practise
- Bhangra Goes British: Ocean Quest (Flip and Match)
- Bhangra Goes British: Time Travel Quest (Collect the Answer)
- Flutes, Siddis and Flamenco: Candy Quick Fire (Quick Fire)
- Lutes Across Lands: Explorer'S Map Quest (Match It Up)
- Music Packs Its Bags: Candy Puzzle (Clue Puzzle)
- Quiz: Bhangra Goes British (8 questions)
- Quiz: Flutes, Siddis and Flamenco (8 questions)
- Quiz: Lutes Across Lands (8 questions)
- Quiz: Music Packs Its Bags (8 questions)