How social media helped in popularising and preserving – Khortha folk music

Folk music is an ancient form of Music. This word comes from a German word “Volk”, it means “the people”. Every community or society in the whole world has their own traditional Folk music whether it is Chile, Germany or India. Especially India has a very rich and diverse culture of Folk music. Here I am writing about one of the most famous Folk music of Jharkhand that is “Khortha”. This language is spoken by approximately 1.5 Crores people of Jharkhand. The objective behind writing this article is to make society aware about “Khortha’s” beautiful folk music and its rich Folk culture. This article will give little bit of exposure to Khortha Folk music and it will help scholars who are working on Folk music. Descriptive research methodology has been used for writing this article. Khortha is such a beautiful and famous language of Jharkhand that it should also reach to different parts of India. And this is one authentic way of giving respect to this Language and its culture which it truly deserves.

Key words: Khortha, Jharkhand, Folk Music, Community, Culture