YOUTH+TREND
JAM
it up.
-Deepsha Agrawal
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Photo Captured by Puneet Sidhu
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There is yet another bustling trend in college culture- jamming. Its all about just sitting together, chilling and savoring music.
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hese days, jamming it up in college campuses seems the right thing to do for college going music enthusiasts. Jamming, as such, is not a new idea to music frenzies, but the newest in this direction is orchestrating these sessions in colleges. Usually, jamming involves a gathering of music lovers around malls, restaurants, music stores, open ground or any other youth rush area and playing some impromptu high beat music. For ages, jamming has been the most loved idea for young musicians to meet up and share ideas all whilst having fun with different genres of music; from completely strange street musicians who happen to run into each other to professionally devised sessions for recording and publicizing music, jamming colligates it all. Outdoing the conventional college band performances and superstar
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performances for which college students would be ready to shell out huge bucks once, these sessions have made their way into college campuses and have gained much popularity. The idea is to simply pull together in that lakeside of your college or that central park which most of the time is the love birds' adda or that stadium which was apparently made for sport activities, and, how could one miss the college canteen, which is our music lovers' most favorite adda and play together some hard core music that gets into your nerves. And all that is spontaneous, without any prior improvisation. So, jamming becomes more of chilling out than a sangeet ka riyaaz. Himal, a Bangalore based college student, who is a guitar fanatic says, “Jamming is like, you just meet up people who share your passion for
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