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Tribal Music of India: The Muria and Maria Gonds of Madhya Pradesh
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produced by Roderic C. Knight (Folkways Records, 1983), 47 mins

A buffalo-horn trumpet, the hakum, announces the joyful harvest festival and varying types of drums called mandri, kotoloka and kundir take over. A group of women chant antiphonally in leadership of the wedding festivities. Men dance on stilts, creating an intoxicating rhythm that is guided by drums. This is a...

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produced by Roderic C. Knight (Folkways Records, 1983), 47 mins
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