Subject: Membranophones / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Datta Saunke (nagāṙā drum pair), J. R. Yadav (shehnai double-reed aerophone) and another musician at a recording session (microphones visible) during the Durgā-pūjā Mahotsav festival. The festival was held at the Cross Maidan garden in Dhobi Talao neighborhood.
Date:: October 24, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Moment before impact, stroke 'dha'
Date:: October 3, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: The Om Periyaswamy music & dance group perform seven dances. Eight men wearing ghunghru ankle bells perform folk dances and songs in Tamil. The ankle bells that the dancers wear can be heard throughout the performance. The dances include the Oyilāṭṭām "graceful dance" with handkerchiefs (Item 3), the Kummi hand clapping dance, and three Kolāttam stick dances in which the dancers tap sticks together to create rhythm during the dance. A whistle is heard at the end of each dance. For Item 3, the Data Sheet references the 1938 A. A. Bake recording, Bake 7.2 "Nilattam / Dance with handkerchiefs.
Date:: March 14, 1984
Resource Type:: sound recording
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Two kettle drums used by the Bagata (Bhagatā) people (?), from Paderu, near Chintapalli, Vishakha Patnam district. A.P. photo. Possession of the Tribal Cultural Research and Training Institute.
Date:: December 21, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Dhol-lezim mandal dance troupe musical instruments: Left: a lezim stick with jingling cymbals loosely attached, jhāñjh bronze cymbals with wooden handles; and a tāsa shallow bowl drum with screw type tuning pegs (R), played with cane sticks (chob) (L).
Date:: December 13, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Dhol-Lezim (Lejim) mandal dance troupe musical instruments: L and R: a lezim stick with jingling cymbals attached, jhāñjh bronze cymbals with wooden handles, and a tāsa shallow bowl drum with screw type tuning pegs (C), played with cane sticks (L).
Date:: December 13, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Venkatacalam Tevar (aka Pillai), professional singer and tep player, singing “Kaman Pāndigai,” a Tamil lavani genre sung in debate form. He has no sisyas as the form is out of fashion.
Date:: March 12, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Rakteswari Theyyam: The demon transforms into Rakteswari (Rakteshwari, Rikteswari). The Mother Goddess: Because the Bhagavati has been satisfied by the offering of a chicken symbolizing the human child fetus, she appears here in a form with a large headdress and grass (split palm frond) skirt, dancing joyfully to bless the audience. The maddaḷam and ceṇḍa (chenda) drummers (left) play the rhythms for Rakteswari’s fierce performance.
Date:: April 6, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: “Music class in progress Barve’s school.” Madhukar Barve, son of Manahar Barve (Manahar Barve Sangeet Vidyalay), teaches a group of three violinists, two sitarists, one vertical flutist, one tablā player, and one harmonium player. Two small children sit in the center of the circle. At Manahar Barve Sangeet Vidyalaya music school.
Date:: October 10, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Two images. Left: tamasha women sing. A tablā and harmonium are partly visible. Right: a tamasha woman performs namaskaram resting on her knees.
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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