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