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Description:: Field recording of narrative songs sung by a lead male singer and a group of female singers with Chang and Manjira accompaniment. A faint sound of a bowed string instrument can be heard as an accompanying instrument in the recording. The songs are about a wedding episode within a devotional narrative.1. 'Sona rupa ra mandiya', a narrative song sung by a lead male singer followed by a group of female singers with Chang and Manjira accompaniment. In the middle of the song, ambient sounds of a bell, Nagada drums and Shankh can be heard. 2. 'Dhola parni ne bhuli bira ne', a narrative song sung by a lead male singer followed by a group of female singers with Chang and Manjira accompaniment. 3. 'Ramta jogi ave re', a narrative song sung by a lead male singer followed by a group of female singers with Chang and Manjira accompaniment. 4. A narrative song sung by a lead male singer followed by a group of female singers with Chang, bowed lute and Manjira accompaniment.
Date:: July 16, 1981
Resource Type:: sound recording
Collection:: Recordings of Hereditary Musicians of Western Rajasthan
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Field recordings of the ritual narrative tradition of 'Ambav Bharat' at Undri village in Udaipur, Rajasthan. The ritual performance consists of narrating the story of Amba Mata, the female deity, with Dhak and Thali accompaniment. Amba is a female deity whose narrative is sung and performed during the Gavri festival in eastern Rajasthan. Most devotees of Amba mata and Gavri are members of the Bhil community of Rajasthan.
Date:: September 18, 1982
Resource Type:: sound recording
Collection:: Recordings of Hereditary Musicians of Western Rajasthan
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Recording of songs sung by a female singer of the Manganiar community, Asu Manganiar also known as Asudevi Manganiar. Asu accompanies herself on the Dhol.
Date:: June 29, 2000
Resource Type:: sound recording
Collection:: Recordings of Hereditary Musicians of Western Rajasthan
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: The audio recordings in the collection include ballads, oral epics and storytelling of hereditary musician castes in the Western Rajasthan region of India recorded from 1980 to 2003. These hereditary musicians belong to some of the most marginalized communities with traditions that are quickly disappearing. The collection represents the research carried out by the late Komal Kothari of the Rupayan Sansthan, whose pioneering work put the music of Western Rajasthan, especially that of the Langa and Manganiar communities, on the world music map. The Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology at the American Institute of Indian Studies digitized this collection of audio cassettes that document the music and oral traditions of Western Rajasthan as part of the Modern Endangered Archives Program.

Description:: Field recordings of the ritual narrative tradition of 'Ambav Bharat' at Undri village in Udaipur, Rajasthan. The ritual performance consists of narrating the story of Amba Mata, the female deity, with Dhak and Thali accompaniment. Amba is a female deity whose narrative is sung and performed during the Gavri festival in eastern Rajasthan. Most devotees of Amba mata and Gavri are members of the Bhil community of Rajasthan.
Date:: September 19, 1982
Resource Type:: sound recording
Collection:: Recordings of Hereditary Musicians of Western Rajasthan
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Recording of a stories narrated by Mohanram ji of the Meghwal community from village Basni Kachhwaha, Tehsil Merta, District Nagaur, Rajasthan.
Date:: August 02, 1987
Resource Type:: sound recording
Collection:: Recordings of Hereditary Musicians of Western Rajasthan
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Field recording of Gavri festival at Gadhavan village in Udaipur district, Rajasthan. The recording consists of interviews about the story of Gavri, ritual songs and instrumental percussion during the festival. Ambient sounds and conversation at the ritual site can be heard in the recording between the tracks.
Date:: October 02, 1980
Resource Type:: sound recording
Collection:: Recordings of Hereditary Musicians of Western Rajasthan
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Recording of proceedings of a rehearsal of a play by various actors. The rehearsal is led by Aruna Roy, the founder of Social Work and Research Centre (SWRC) and the Barefoot College at Tiloniya, Ajmer, Rajasthan.
Date:: 1980-1989
Resource Type:: sound recording
Collection:: Recordings of Hereditary Musicians of Western Rajasthan
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Field recording of songs sung by a group of women. These songs are of the night long ritual of singing devotional songs known as Ratijaga. The recording contains intermittent conversations among the women singers and with Komal Kothari.
Date:: May 24, 2000
Resource Type:: sound recording
Collection:: Recordings of Hereditary Musicians of Western Rajasthan
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: A compilation of various recordings of instrumental melodies played on the wind instrument, Algoza or Satara.
Date:: 1990-1999
Resource Type:: sound recording
Collection:: Recordings of Hereditary Musicians of Western Rajasthan
Modern Endangered Archives Program

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