Indian Folk Music Dataset

This dataset is a collection of mel-spectrogram features extracted from Indian folk music containing the following 15 folk styles: Bauls, Bhavageethe, Garba, Kajri, Maand, Sohar, Tamang Selo, Veeragase, Bhatiali, Bihu, Gidha, Lavani, Naatupura Paatu, Sufi, Uttarakhandi. The number of recordings varies from 16 to 50 in the mentioned folk styles representing the scarcity of availability of given folk styles on the Internet. There are at least 4 artists and a maximum of 22. Overall there are 125 artists (34 female + 91 male) in these 15 folk styles. There is a total of 606 recordings in the dataset, with a total duration of 54.45 hrs. Mel-spectrogram is extracted from a 3-second segment with each song's 1/2 second sliding window. Extracted mel-spectrogram for each segment is annotated with folk_style, state, artist, gender, song, source, no_of_artists, folk_style_id, state_id, artist_id, gender_id. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This project was funded under the grant number: ECR/2018/000204 by the Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB).