Chepang Songs: Acting Out of Pain and Suffering

Abstract

This paper explores how the Chepang songs able to act out pain and suffering of the Chepangs caused by their oppressed and marginal position in Nepali society and how the Chepangs songs are true representatives of Chepang culture and their painful life. And this paper also attempts to explore why they choose only songs to act out their pain and suffering instead of choosing other means. This paper also explores and proves that the life of Chepang is full of miseries, pains and needs because of poverty which is truely represented in their songs. They live the life of simplicity and innocence and bear those pathos and pain searching some comfort in songs and communal life. Because of the healing power of songs, they can act out their pain and suffering. Therefore, the Chepangs songs become means of acting out pain and suffering of the Chepangs due to the therapeutic function of songs. The Chepangs are also compelled to adopt colloquial (oral) tradition to act out their pain and suffering since they have no any alternative, what else can such (canonical) people do to act out their pain and suffering.