Genre: slides (photographs) / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive / Date: 1984 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Six members of a Villupāttu ensemble seated together with a villu (bow) instrument (also known as Villupattu, Villadichampaatu, and Villisai).
Date:: March 17, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Exterior view of the building in the temple pond at the Thanumalayan Temple (Sthanumalayan Temple).
Date:: March 14, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Date:: March 14, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Date:: March 14, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Gīgīpada (Gigipada, Gīgī Pada) singers of the Holeya community (left to right): Yerappa Basavappa Sutagaji, of Kalma Galli (voice and taal or jhāñjh cymbals); Ramachandra Ramappa Dhavale, of Tigadi Galli (voice and daf); and Basappa Gagappa Talwar, of Talwar Galli (voice and tuṇtuṇe). Gigipada singers performed Kannada songs, created by Hulkund Basappa, Purandara Dasa, and Hosur Somappa, at festivals. They sang mystical songs, auspicious songs, and modern songs on sanitation and cleanliness of body and mind.
Date:: February 21, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Two Holeya (Dalit, Pulaya) agricultural women in traditional saris sing back a song, after hearing the song recorded by musicologist A. A. Bake in 1938. The woman on the right wears sacred red and white muttu beads worn only by jogtīs (devadāsīs) (women dedicated to Goddess Renuka/Yellamma). Men wearing white dhotis or navy pants stand behind. The names of four women singing are: Basava Bhimshappa Bharamannavar, Gangavva Shivappa Bharamannavar, Dayamavva Phakirappa Bharamannavar, and Bhimavva Yalapappa.
Date:: February 21, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Eight visible girls (of 18) in bright long skirts and blouses hold hands as they sing and dance in a circle around the image of an elephant (not visible in image), representing the vahana of Goddess Lakshmi, thus worshiping Shakti, the feminine principle.
Date:: February 20, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Nine visible girls (of 18) in bright long skirts and blouses hold hands as they sing and dance in a circle around the image of an elephant (lower right corner of image), representing the vahana of Goddess Lakshmi, thus worshiping Shakti, the feminine principle.
Date:: February 20, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Members of the Basavanneppa Band at a baraat wedding procession. A band member holds a mini Casio keyboard and stands beside a microphone and amplifier attached to a bicycle. They are in front of an Indian Airlines bus. The location is 35/1 Vardhappa Rd., Belgaum 590004.
Date:: February 18, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Village children observe an interview that is happening off-camera between community leaders and ethnomusicology researchers traveling with Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy.
Date:: February 23, 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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