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    oralliterature's recordings

    51 recordings

  • The ma Ni Song

    Tibetan, Khams

    The ma Ni song is a traditional religious song, sung ...

    Nov. 1, 2009 China

  • Shuguo Wobo Ritual

    Tibetan · Mangghuer

    This ritual is held annually to renew a wobo (sacred ...

    July 1, 2008 China

  • Chuankor Huala

    Tibetan, Amdo · ...

    The Chuankor huala describes how he became a huala and ...

    July 1, 2009 China

  • Mangghuer Badaola Huoderling

    Mangghuer · Mandarin ...

    A work song from Zhongchuan Township. This recording comes from ...

    July 1, 2008 China

  • Lingxi Temple Consecration Ritual

    Hezhou, Linxia · ...

    This video contains footage of fashi (folk Daoist practitioners) consecrating ...

    Jan. 1, 2009 China

  • Folk Song

    Tibetan, Amdo

    This song may be sung at any celebratory gathering. It ...

    July 1, 2006 China

  • Folk Song Competition

    Tibetan, Amdo

    This video contains footage of Tibetan males and females singing ...

    Jan. 1, 2011 China

  • A Folk Story of a Carpenter

    Tibetan, Amdo

    This folk story is commonly told to children by their ...

    July 1, 2009 China

  • Big Lake And Small Lake

    Tibetan, Khams

    People sing this song together while dancing in a circle. ...

    July 1, 2008 China

  • In Praise of Horses

    Tibetan, Amdo

    The lyrics state that if you praise a lama’s horse ...

    July 1, 2007 China

  • Golden Palace

    Tibetan, Lhasa

    This song praises great monasteries and lamas. This recording comes ...

    June 1, 2007 China

  • Sun, Moon, and Star

    Tibetan, Amdo

    This song says the world is peaceful and the grassland ...

    July 1, 2008 China

  • The Sun, Moon, and Stars, All Three

    Tibetan, Amdo

    This song is only sung during celebratory gatherings and picnics. ...

    Aug. 1, 2008 China

  • White Sheep Like Stars in The Sky

    Tibetan, Amdo

    This song may be sung at any celebratory gathering. It ...

    Feb. 1, 2007 China

  • Wedding Song

    Namuyi

    This song is only sung during weddings. This recording comes ...

    Dec. 1, 2008 China

  • The Mongghul Bog Ritual

    Tibetan, Dpa' ris ...

    The Bog ritual is held during the winter in Mongghul ...

    Dec. 19, 2000 China

  • Glu so lo lo ma'i A long len

    Tibetan, Amdo

    This song is sung at public celebratory gatherings and festivals ...

    Oct. 1, 2007 China

  • Ma ni Song

    Tibetan, Amdo

    This genre is sung when greeting lamas who visit the ...

    Oct. 1, 2007 China

  • Dancing Song

    Tibetan, Amdo

    This song may be sung at any celebratory gatherings. It ...

    July 1, 2010 China

  • Spring Festival and Deities of Spring

    Pumi

    The New Year for different animals and the spring deity ...

    Jan. 1, 2010 China

  • Circle Dances

    Lavrung

    Villagers perform circle dances. Such dances are generally performed on ...

    Jan. 1, 2010 China

  • The Sun Rises From Up There

    Tibetan, Amdo

    This song may be sung at any celebratory gathering. This ...

    Aug. 1, 2008 China

  • Love Song

    Tibetan, Amdo

    This song is never sung at public celebratory gatherings, as ...

    July 1, 2009 China

  • Yulong Chanting - Congbaitu

    Naxi

    The vocalist is a dongba religious specialist, and his grandfather, ...

    Jan. 1, 2008 China

  • On The Golden Mountain

    Tibetan, Lhasa

    This song is thought to be 500 hundred years old. ...

    June 1, 2007 China

  • The Hard Lives of Women

    Tibetan, Amdo

    This song describes women's difficult lives and is sung at ...

    Jan. 1, 2011 China

  • A Dog and a Pauper

    Mi Nyag

    Dbal bzang provides a folktale in which a dog helps ...

    Oct. 30, 2009 China

  • Bang smad Summer Picnic

    Mi Nyag

    This video contains footage of the summer picnic in Bang ...

    July 1, 2011 China

  • Bang smad Village New Year 2010

    Tibetan, Khams · ...

    This video shows Bang smad Village’s New Year celebrations, including ...

    Feb. 14, 2010 China

  • Preventing rainfall ritual

    Tibetan

    A tantric practitioner from Dgon la ka monastery performs the ...

    Oct. 1, 2010 China

  • Eulogy of Agajud village

    Mongolian, Horchin

    Bütügegchi is an amateur bard who is trying to get ...

    April 4, 2010 Mongolia

  • Sounds of Music and Worship

    Newari

    Sounds of music and worship played in the courtyard of ...

    Jan. 1, 1980 Nepal

  • Chest beating ritual 'Marāsem sineh zani'

    Luri

    In the month of Moharram, when Imām Hossein and his ...

    Jan. 1, 1975 Iran

  • Single drum-dance

    Inuktun

    Aijakko Mitiq a 67 year old former hunter from Neqi, ...

    Aug. 1, 2010 Greenland

  • Limba: Tape 1, Side 1

    Limba

    As recorded in Limba country in northern Sierra Leone on ...

    July 1, 1961 Sierra Leone

  • Flower 'u dum ba ri'

    Tibetan, Amdo

    Flower ‘u dum ba ri' was told by Don drug ...

    July 1, 2010 China

  • Snake Song 'Paambu Theendiidumo'

    Mudagar

    "Paambu Theendiidumo" is a Mudugar song listing the names of ...

    July 1, 2011 India

  • The Disappearance of the Squire's Ham

    English, North Essex-West ...

    Dick Ruggles relates the story of the title, as told ...

    Dec. 1, 2004 United Kingdom

  • Rivendell Lodge

    English · Sherpa ...

    Sherpa Tenzing explains a local legend about the land. This ...

    March 1, 2011 Nepal

  • Thikarda Tejaji Ballad

    Hadoti

    The fresh recordings of the complete Ballad sung by the ...

    Aug. 19, 2010 India

  • Tibetan New Year Festival

    Tibetan, Amdo

    This film documents the Tibetan New Year festivities as celebrated ...

    Feb. 25, 2009 China

  • Taiyal Record

    Taiyal

    A mixture of working songs and songs for entertainment to ...

    July 1, 1964 Taiwan

  • A Paiwan Song

    Paiwan

    A recording of a song, sung by a group of ...

    July 1, 1954 Taiwan

  • Ha Baode on his family history

    Tibetan · Mandarin ...

    This interview with Ha Baode was recorded in the summer ...

    Sept. 1, 2009 China

  • Rgysa bzang Tibetan Village Dancing

    Tibetan

    G.yung 'brug (b. 1985) recorded this video material during the ...

    Feb. 15, 2008 China

  • Performance Pabusar

    Marwari

    Performance of the Epic of Pabuji by Patashi Devi Bhopi ...

    May 5, 2009 India

  • Liquor Praise Song

    Tibetan

    Liquor Praise Song, sung by འཕགས་པ། 'phags pa, Paba 帕巴 ...

    Feb. 22, 2011 China

  • Chikocha

    Swahili

    Ngoma (a Swahili word which literally means ‘drum’) are happenings ...

    July 1, 2004 Tanzania

  • Tibetan Death Rites

    Sherpa · Tibetan

    A film recording of the cremation and funeral rites of ...

    July 1, 1979 Nepal

  • Asr Adhan

    Arabic

    Sheikh Antar recites ‘Asr adhan' at the Sultan Qansuh Al ...

    Aug. 10, 2010 Egypt

  • Temiar Dream Music

    English · Malay ...

    A narrative song as a form of telling folklore. It ...

    Dec. 3, 1941 Malaysia

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