Genre: black-and-white photographs / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Roman Catholic men and boys stand outside an open-air chapel with a thatched roof after singing Telugu Christmas songs. A musician in a plaid shirt holds a harmonium on his shoulder (left), and a father holds a hymnal (center). A ḍholak or mṛdaṅgam player holds his instrument (right).
Date:: 1963-1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, 1927-2009
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Congregational singers at Christmas Eve hymn singing Telugu Christmas songs: songs to Mariamma (Mary), and Jesus; a lullaby; a rama; and a “village" song. A large kalam decorates the floor. Decorative cut-paper strips including a Christian cross hang overhead. A gas lantern illuminates gathering. The researcher's driver holds a microphone.
Date:: December 24, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Wandering musicians, Ishvaramma Pocānā playing a sitārā and andil (like tāla), and Satyammā (Jangmolu caste) playing dimkī, are seated on a curb with a baby and a young girl. They are singing a katha (story) of Harishchandra Maharaj in Telugu. The sitārā is a 3- stringed lute, the andil is a donut-shaped, hollow metal ring with pellets inside, held on the thumb and struck against the body of the sitārā, and the dimkī is a skin-covered pot drum with a rear opening. Male pedestrians stop to watch.<br>Ref: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, A musical journey through India, 1963-1964 (Department of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1988), CD example 5.5.
Date:: December 22, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Wandering musicians, Ishvaramma Pocānā playing sitārā, and Satyammā (Jangmolu caste) playing a dimkī, seated on a curb with a young girl standing between them. The sitārā is a 3- stringed lute, the andil is a donut-shaped, hollow metal ring with pellets inside, held on the thumb and struck against the body of the sitārā, and the dimkī is a skin-covered pot drum with a rear opening. Male pedestrians stop to watch.<br>Ref: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, A musical journey through India, 1963-1964 (Department of Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1988)
Date:: December 22, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Two-headed clay drum, a vase-type pot drum, with paste on both sides (madiala?). An instrument of the Bagata (Bhagatā) people and other tribes in Āraku Valley. “Paste” refers to weighted paste applied on both drumheads. The image shows the smaller head, usually played by the right hand. A.P. photo. Possession of the Tribal Cultural Research and Training Institute.
Date:: December 21, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Congregational singers at Christmas Eve hymn singing Telugu Christmas songs: to Mariamma (Mary), and Jesus; a lullaby; a rama; and a “village" song. Musicians play rectangular clappers (left), a ḍholak or mṛdaṅgam (center), and harmonium (right). A large kalam decorates the floor.<br>Ref: Jairazbhoy, Nazir Ali, Musical Journey Through India: 1963-1964 (1988), p. 26; CD example 5.8.
Date:: December 24, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, Mohammad (the driver), Yacoob Rajabally (also known as Yacoob Qawwal and Yacoob Premragi) and Felix van Lamsweerde with a Volkswagen van and sitar on top.
Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy (left), Yacoob Rajabally (also known as Yacoob Qawwal and Yacoob Premragi) (center) and Felix van Lamsweerde in front of a building.
Date:: December 28, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Koyā tribal dance. Accompanied by ḍolu. Koyā women and girls dance and sing while holding hands, bending forward. A Koyā man walks with them while playing ḍolu. Two young Koyā men walk with them while holding shooting bows. Nehrunagar, Palwañcā, Khammam District, Telangana.
Date:: December 24, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: View of hills and distant buildings. A dog walks up the hill to the terrace.
Date:: December 26, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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