Gujarat

The musical form most broadly associated with Gujaratis, both by outsiders and by themselves, is the garbo. Gujaratis generally use the plural form of the word, garbā , even when speaking in the singular, perhaps because they seldom perform a single garbo. The performance includes three different art forms—music, dance, and poetry—dedicated to Mataji, the collective representation of Gujarat’s many mother goddesses. Today, a garbo might also be about Krishna, reflecting the...