Discuss ‘folk forms as protest’ with special reference to Folk Ballads.

Protest, broadly speaking can be of two kinds, open and covert. Open protest can take the form of clearly or openly voiced dissent or gestures of protest. Covert protest can exist in various hues. Lamentation, subversive laughter and ridicule can be some expressions of covert protest. Folk forms spring from the heart of the folk or common people and reach out to the folk. They are alive and sensitive to the feelings and emotions of the folk. Being an ongoing process which records the narratives of an individual engaging with the social space available to him or entire communities seeking to assert and identify themselves, the folk form has great elasticity. Folk forms go on acquiring new strands of thoughts, ideas and issues which sometimes may burst into gestures of protest. Protest can be understood as both the desire to question the authority of social, religious and political structures and the expression of this desire whether spontaneously or through organized display such as protest marches etc. Let us see how Folk forms can voice or constitute protest.

There are instances of registering an open protest. If we look into the social content of the folksongs it becomes apparent. Hemango Biswas writes, "A purely academic and conservative approach to folksongs often overlooks and even ignores one of its most human aspects-the 'protest songs', which express in varied forms the struggle of our oppressed people through the ages against an unjust social _____ __________ ___ ____ _______ _____ _______ _________.
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