ABSTRACT
A digital history/archiving of the songs come to have taken life, which in its very evocation finds an erasure and a standing of the history and memory of the song and encompasses its rich oral tradition. Folk music and folk songs are very much part of the performing arts and literature. Memory, history, and literature relive in these new archives and the digitization of the Jhumur songs and oral tradition finds a way to survive and relive in digital formulations.
The chapter traces the social, economic, and the cultural politics in the history of migration of the tea plantation workers. An attempt at tracing the history of migration through people’s stories, folktales, music, folk songs, and dances and its place in the digital would be an attempt in the production of knowledge of the voices and narratives that mainstream history and contemporary hegemony silences, while acknowledging the difficult questions of representation, reality, and ethics that a construction of marginalized narratives entails.
