Subject: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009 / Genre: slides (photographs) / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy asks women, including Gopibai Sivlal, to identify the 1938 recording (made by musicologist A. A. Bake) that they have just heard. At Gangadhar Nagar.
Date:: February 24, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy at a table on a tiled verandah with PCM and TCD5 recording machines, portable VCR, battery pack, microphones mounted.
Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Doreswami, age 80, listens to A. A. Bake’s 1938 recordings, reacts, and identifies some of them, especially items from three (Tefi 6, 7, and 8). The interview was recorded at the Usilampatty Circuit House. Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy plays the recordings on TCD5 cassette player as Doreswami places the speaker against his ear, as he is somewhat deaf.
Date:: March 13, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Exterior of Krishna temple (?) with the date on left of building: 1978. Towns people said that a politician gave the temple to the village. Village men, women, children flank Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy and Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy at entrance. Chandappa Jampana Kattimani is standing on the right among men, women and children. At Gangadhar Nagar.
Date:: February 24, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy cues up a cassette copy of a 1938 recording made by musicologist A. A. Bake (Tefi# 63) on a TCD5 cassette player. Gopibai Sivlal, other women, and boys watch. At Gangadhar Nagar.
Date:: February 24, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy at a table on tiled verandah with PCM and TCD5 recording machines, portable VCR, battery pack, microphones mounted.
Date:: 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Sreedharan Nair (right) and his family in their garden in Vazhoor, with Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy (seated, center) and Ram Gaekwad, driver for the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology, (seated, left).
Date:: March 24, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy stands with a tripod during a pause in the Sarpam Thullal Pulluvan Serpent Ritual, either before or after the entranced women run to the snake grove. Hindu families stand waiting for the next stage in the ritual. This is an annual household Sarpam Thullal Pulluvan Serpent Ritual held at a Sarpa Kaavu (snake grove) in a private home in Peramangalam village. Sarpam Thullal (Dance of Snakes), is a mystical ritual of Kerala performed by a community called “Pullava,” and is performed to appease snake gods and bring prosperity to a family. The songs are called “Pulluvan Pāṭṭu.”
Date:: April 2, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: A Sarpam Thullal Pulluvan Serpent Ritual actor wrapped in white impersonates a stork, squatting and hopping about the earthen floor, as Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy videotapes the performance. This is an annual household Sarpam Thullal Pulluvan Serpent Ritual held at a Sarpa Kaavu (snake grove) in a private home in Peramangalam village.
Date:: April 2, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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