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1992 'Urs of Data Ganj Bakhsh at Data Darbar, #6 (PAK-92-8)
of Ethnomusicology Archives, University of Washington Libraries, in Hiromi Lorraine Sakata Fieldwork Collection, Pakistan Collection, Pakistan Videos , 1 hour 38 mins
Clean-up and preparation for the last night of the 'urs. Evening lineup of qawwals up to the last qawwal before the entrance of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
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of Ethnomusicology Archives, University of Washington Libraries, in Hiromi Lorraine Sakata Fieldwork Collection, Pakistan Collection, Pakistan Videos , 1 hour 38 mins
Description
Clean-up and preparation for the last night of the 'urs. Evening lineup of qawwals up to the last qawwal before the entrance of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Date Written / Recorded
1992-08-20
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Archival footage
Contributor
Hiromi Lorraine Sakata, fl. 2002
Author / Creator
Hiromi Lorraine Sakata, fl. 2002
Topic / Theme
Musical instruments
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the Ethnomusicology Archives, University of Washington Libraries. Copyright © Hiromi Lorraine Sakata.
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Interview - Faqir Abdul Ghafoor - Pakistan
of Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology. American Institute of Indian Studies, in Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Collection, N83. Three-week fieldtrip to India (2 weeks – Bhopal, Bombay – Kach) and Pakistan (1 week – Islamabad, Karachi, Hyderabad). Purpose of trip was to accompany Ralph Rinzler (Director, International Center (?), Smithsonian) and Peter Seitel (Director, Folklife Program, Smithsonian) on a feasibility study to explore areas of collaboration between the Smithsonian and Indian and Pakistani institutions. Miscellaneous recordings of Madhya Pradesh folk, devotional and tribal traditions, Kachi devotional songs, Pakistani classical music and Sindhi folk traditions. Recordings on Sony TC D5M and photographs on Canon A1. 5 audio cassettes. Still photographs. Diary (incomplete). Tape contents., 1:197:84 (New Delhi, Delhi State); performed by Abdul Ghafoor, fl. 1983 , 3 mins, 1 page(s)
Interview of Abdul Ghafoor by Nazir Jairazbhoy about the use of instruments which have been introduced more recently, especially the addition of tabla.
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of Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology. American Institute of Indian Studies, in Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy Collection, N83. Three-week fieldtrip to India (2 weeks – Bhopal, Bombay – Kach) and Pakistan (1 week – Islamabad, Karachi, Hyderabad). Purpose of trip was to accompany Ralph Rinzler (Director, International Center (?), Smithsonian) and Peter Seitel (Director, Folklife Program, Smithsonian) on a feasibility study to explore areas of collaboration between the Smithsonian and Indian and Pakistani institutions. Miscellaneous recordings of Madhya Pradesh folk, devotional and tribal traditions, Kachi devotional songs, Pakistani classical music and Sindhi folk traditions. Recordings on Sony TC D5M and photographs on Canon A1. 5 audio cassettes. Still photographs. Diary (incomplete). Tape contents., 1:197:84 (New Delhi, Delhi State); performed by Abdul Ghafoor, fl. 1983 , 3 mins, 1 page(s)
Description
Interview of Abdul Ghafoor by Nazir Jairazbhoy about the use of instruments which have been introduced more recently, especially the addition of tabla.
Date Written / Recorded
1983
Field of Study
World Music
Content Type
Interview
Performer / Ensemble
Abdul Ghafoor, fl. 1983
Contributor
Amy Catlin, fl. 1982-2017, Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, 1927-2009
Author / Creator
Amy Catlin, fl. 1982-2017, Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, 1927-2009, Abdul Ghafoor, fl. 1983
Topic / Theme
Musical instruments
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy and Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy Collection, Archive and Research Center for Ethnomusicology. Copyright © Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy.
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Lok Mela Festival at Lok Virsa, #1. (P-88-1)
of Ethnomusicology Archives, University of Washington Libraries, in Hiromi Lorraine Sakata Fieldwork Collection, Pakistan Collection, Pakistan Videos , 1 hour 9 mins
Performances of various groups from different provinces.
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of Ethnomusicology Archives, University of Washington Libraries, in Hiromi Lorraine Sakata Fieldwork Collection, Pakistan Collection, Pakistan Videos , 1 hour 9 mins
Description
Performances of various groups from different provinces.
Date Written / Recorded
1988-04-09
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Archival footage
Contributor
Hiromi Lorraine Sakata, fl. 2002
Author / Creator
Hiromi Lorraine Sakata, fl. 2002
Topic / Theme
Musical instruments
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the Ethnomusicology Archives, University of Washington Libraries. Copyright © Hiromi Lorraine Sakata.
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Shorts RAI Film Festival 2021, Gula: Music for a Sacred Time
directed by Remigiusz Sowa, fl. 2010-2017; produced by Anna Sowa, fl. 2012-2014, in Shorts RAI Film Festival 2021 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2020), 14 mins
This video introduces the rich and varied Hindu-Buddhist religious and ritual musical heritage of the ancient royal city of Bhaktapur (Nepal).
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directed by Remigiusz Sowa, fl. 2010-2017; produced by Anna Sowa, fl. 2012-2014, in Shorts RAI Film Festival 2021 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2020), 14 mins
Description
This video introduces the rich and varied Hindu-Buddhist religious and ritual musical heritage of the ancient royal city of Bhaktapur (Nepal).
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Anna Sowa, fl. 2012-2014
Author / Creator
Remigiusz Sowa, fl. 2010-2017
Date Published / Released
2020
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Series
Shorts RAI Film Festival 2021
Speaker / Narrator
Panchalal Lachimasyu
Person Discussed
Panchalal Lachimasyu
Topic / Theme
Religious practices, Drums, Ethnomusicology, Hinduism, Buddhism, Nepali
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2020 Remigiusz Sowa
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This is A Music: Reclaiming An Untouchable Drum
directed by Zoe C. Sherinian; produced by Zoe C. Sherinian (Sherinian Productions, 2011), 1 hour 13 mins
This ethnomusicological documentary is about the psychological and economic transformation of a group of Dalit [formerly called outcaste or untouchable] parai frame drummers from a village near Paramagudi, Tamil Nadu, South India. The internal shift in the self-perception that these drummers undergo includes three...
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directed by Zoe C. Sherinian; produced by Zoe C. Sherinian (Sherinian Productions, 2011), 1 hour 13 mins
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This ethnomusicological documentary is about the psychological and economic transformation of a group of Dalit [formerly called outcaste or untouchable] parai frame drummers from a village near Paramagudi, Tamil Nadu, South India. The internal shift in the self-perception that these drummers undergo includes three interwoven threads of musical identity: the identity of the drum, of the music they play, and of the status of the drummers. Through t...
This ethnomusicological documentary is about the psychological and economic transformation of a group of Dalit [formerly called outcaste or untouchable] parai frame drummers from a village near Paramagudi, Tamil Nadu, South India. The internal shift in the self-perception that these drummers undergo includes three interwoven threads of musical identity: the identity of the drum, of the music they play, and of the status of the drummers. Through the lens of rarely filmed folk performances and the experience of an American female ethnomusicologist who comes to study with the group Kurinji Malar, we see a group of nine drummers trying to eke out a living while negotiating ongoing caste discrimination in their village. The Hindu caste system constructs parai drummers and their drum as polluted because they play for funerals. As they have professionalized, however, they reconstruct their performance as “music” and their identity as “worldly.” The film also explores the economic options of these musicians as laborers. Two of the best drummers are tempted to limit their “drumset” performances to auspicious festival occasions because they are able to make enough money and gain social status as construction workers. Other members who work as field laborers or shepherd goats are completely dependent on drumming to supplement their income. The narrative of this film focuses on the cultural debate among these drummers over whether they should reclaim the term parai (associated by many with the drummer’s “degraded” caste name Paraiyar) or they should continue to use the English term “drumset,” which carries middleclass status. When the drummers get an opportunity to go to the large cosmopolitan city of Chennai to participate in the Chennai Sangamam folk festival, they experience very different treatment at the hands of both the festival organizers and the multi-caste, multi-class urban audience. On their way to the festival they are shocked to find the extensive use of the term “parai-attam” or parai dance in all of the festival advertisement. One of the drummers asks, “Why do they still associate us with the ‘Paraiyan’ caste? Why won’t they let us walk freely in society?” When we interview them soon after they arrive and then at the end of their festival week in Chennai, we see, however, that their overwhelmingly positive reception has greatly shifted their self-perception and value of village based folk artists. Further, they decide to (re)embrace of the term “parai.” It becomes clear that experiencing this appreciation helps the Kurinji Malar drummers reinforce a sense of pride in their drumming as valued music where as previously it was easy for them to internalize these practices as degraded. The question then becomes; can they sustain these changes back in the village? This film shows that changing how parai drummers identify their art reflects the process of changing self-identity through musical performance possible for those still considered by many as “untouchables.” However, this case ultimately shows that complete change in presentation of self in the village context is difficult because of the economic dependence of outcaste drummers on the village middle castes who continue to practice casteism. Woven throughout the film are dynamic and rare examples of village folk dances like karagattam, kummi and oiylattam, oppari funeral lament, stick fighting, and drumming as well as the voices of the drummers and local activists, who tell the story of the process of working for the economic and social liberation of the oppressed Dalits of India through the folk arts.
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Field of Study
World Music
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Zoe C. Sherinian
Author / Creator
Zoe C. Sherinian
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Sherinian Productions
Topic / Theme
Folk music, Spirituality, Religious beliefs, Ethnomusicology, Drums, Tamil
Copyright Message
Copyright (c) 2011 Sherinian Productions LLC
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