Translating Marginality into Lyric: Subaltern Voice of Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhupen Hazarika

Author(s): Dr. Dhrubajyoti Malakar

Abstract:

The evolution of Globalization leads to rising of consciousness of marginality all over the world glocally. Even different domains of creativity have emphasized the issues with due focus in forms of performances. During the last fifty years of his life, Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhupen Hazarika (1926-2011) maintained a bohemian life communicating people from place to place, country to country, caring little about his career and family life. A multifaceted genius, he was a good lyricist, music composer, singer, actor, journalist, author, poet, film-maker, politician, and social activist of the high repute. As the balladeer of the masses he selected the weapon of music for bridging the marginalized people of the North East India. Representing rightly the ethnic identity of the North East he became the voice of the people who were socially, economically, politically and legally ignored, excluded or neglected. He translated their relative isolation into lyric, and both, Social and Spatial Marginality were reconstructed as the voice of the subaltern. Being a search of marginality represented by Hazarika in his lyrics this study is an attempt to explore the invisible exchanges that exist among ethnicity, subalternity and music in him and how he who remained dear to all people cutting across boundaries, generations, caste, creed or sect, becomes the voice of the subaltern.

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