Ju Ne Laa Analysis

The oldest known music or song of the Kuki community is the Ju-ne laa. Their style of singing and dancing developed much before they could identify themselves as Kukis. The Kuki cultural identity is much older than their ethnic identity, inscribed upon them by the Colonials. Their rich cultural heritage, customs, and traditions manifested in their songs/poetry is very telling. The Ju-ne laa is an artwork pregnant with meanings whose reality cannot be grasped by simple manifestation. The primal Kukis used their songs as a way of presenting meanings, which nevertheless retained some of the enigmatic because of its indeterminacy. Along with this line, Gadamer argued that no meaning can be completely revealed as artwork can be repeatedly revisited.