Sociocultural Dimensions Of Deuda Folklore

Deuda is a folklore combining the folksongs articulated extempore in the form of couplets in folk verse, and their synchronised performance which is typically popular among the hilly communities in the Far and Midwestern regions of Nepal. Deuda is one of the principal and ancient folkloric heritages surviving through oral transmission across generations in these topographies. Deuda is not only a song in isolation, but also a folksong embedded with folkloric performance, a typical dance. The folklore has its own characteristics and has specified norms of movement, beats and footsteps which are to be followed duly during performance thereby making it an all-season celebratory folk culture.