{{Short description|Religious dance of Assam, India}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{More citations needed|date=June 2018}}
[[File:Gayan Bayan in Majuli.jpg|thumb|350px|A ''gāyan-bāyan'' performance, Majuli, Assam]]
In Assam, north India, '''gayan-bayan''' (''gāyan-bāyan'') is a religious dance performed by disciples of Sankardev in ''satra''s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gayan Bayan in praise of Sankardev and Madhabdev |url=https://folkways.si.edu/monks-of-the-kamalabari-sattra-of-majuli/gayan-bayan-in-praise-of-sankardev-and-madhabdev/track/smithsonian |website=Smithsonian Folkways |accessdate=10 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Gayan-Bayan from Uttar Kamalabari Satra |url=https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Music-from-India/025M-RKDATX0067XX-0100V0 |website=British Library - Sounds |accessdate=10 June 2018 |archive-date=4 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104071206/http://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Music-from-India/025M-RKDATX0067XX-0100V0 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The phrase ''gāyan-bāyan'' comes from ''gāyan'' (‘singer’) and ''bāyan'' (‘drummer’).<ref>{{cite book|author=Music Academy (Madras, India)|title=The Journal of the Music Academy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K6vjAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Music Academy|location=Madras|page=227|quote= New officers like gāyan (singer), bāyan (drummer), sūtradbār (dancer-director), deuri (distributor of prasāda)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Proceedings of the All-India Conference of Linguists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fWk8AAAAIAAJ|year=1971|page=163|quote= gāyan-bāyan 'singer & drummer'}}</ref> The drums used by the ''bayan'' are mainly khols and cymbals are used.<ref>{{cite book|author=Projesh Banerji|title=Indian Ballet Dancing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5fXZKe3xHQAC&pg=PA85|year=1983|publisher=Abhinav|isbn=978-0-391-02716-9|page=85| quote=the singers – ''gayan'', and the players on ''khol''s and cymbals – ''bayan''}}</ref> The Gayan bayan may differ according to the different Satras and sects.
==See also== * Pung Cholom - Manipur * Pungmul - South Korea and North Korea * Khanjluri, Kazbeguri, Khevsuruli and Mtiuluri - Georgia * Jangi - Azerbaijan * Yarkhushta - Armenia * Qilaut - Canada (Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Yukon), United States (Alaska), Denmark (Denmark) and Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) * Ritual dance of the royal drum - Burundi
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Category:Bhakti movement Category:Cultural history of Assam Category:Vaishnavism
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