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

Description:: Villagers look toward the camera, which is off camera in a jeep carrying ethnomusicology researchers.
Date:: February 23, 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:: 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:: Playback and recording session of bhajana - group devotional music - at the home of Pandit Nandan Herlekar (leader of Sraddha Bhajani Mandal). Music recorded by A. A. Bake in 1938 was played back and music was recorded. The group of women (music students) seated at the session include his sister, Sarala Adhyapak (?) (on the right); and Mrs. Sarala Karlekar with a child, Ambika, almost sitting in her lap. The home is in the village of Shāhapur, a suburb of Belgaum, in the district of Karnataka.
Date:: February 19, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Seventeen 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, 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:: Kedare Megho Birje, Maratha, sings a Kannada lavani song, “Ha Dattatai Munde,” after hearing a recording of a song recorded by A. A. Bake in India in 1938 (Bake_70.3). He gestures dramatically to male listeners, while a female audience member listens with averted eyes. The song “Ha Dattatai Munde,” composed by Hulkand Bhima, is similar to the Bake recording (Bake_70.3), in sawal-jawab form, on the meaning of life, the superiority of men or women, and protest for or against women’s reform movement. The song was sung at Caitra fair. Hindi translation is on the A. A. Bake tape.
Date:: February 18, 0984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Two clarinets and a trumpet play in the center of a band in formation during a wedding procession as a city bus passes. The Basavanneppa Band includes bass drums (2), side drums (2), snare drums (2), clarinets (3), baritone horns (3), trumpets (4), and tubas (2). 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:: Gangadhar Nagar community leader Chandappa Jampana Kattimani holds a photograph and obituary of the musicologist Arnold Adriaan Bake. He is being interviewed off camera by Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, who asks whether he remembers Bake’s visit in 1938.
Date:: February 23, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Chandappa Jampana Kattimani (left), and other village leaders, one in a black fez and one in a red turban, with villagers behind them.
Date:: February 23, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Two children play in an open area of the village bordered by tile-roof homes, with carts, a tree and adults at work. An open sewer is visible on the right.
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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