Translation of a song performed during a recording session titled "Event 07: Women's songs - Bailhongal." The recording was created during the Bake Restudy Project in 1984 when Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy and Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy returned to the original sites of Arnold Adriaan Bake’s 1938 fieldwork in South India (Tamilnadu, Kerala, and Karnataka) in order to solicit responses to Bake’s photographs and audio recordings of various Indian performance traditions in an examination of continuity and change. Transcription by Sarvamangala Honnappa; translation and analysis is by S.A. Krishnaiah.
Translation and analysis of a song recorded by Arnold Adriaan Bake in 1938: archive, no. 68.6, titled "Lullaby." Krishnaiah identifies the work as a "Cradling Ceremony (naming ceremony) song." The song was played back during a recording session of the Bake Restudy Project in 1984 when Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy and Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy returned to the original sites of Arnold Adriaan Bake’s 1938 fieldwork in South India (Tamilnadu, Kerala, and Karnataka) in order to solicit responses to Bake’s photographs and audio recordings of various Indian performance traditions in an examination of continuity and change. Transcription by Sarvamangala Honnappa; translation and analysis is by S.A. Krishnaiah.
Translation of a song about grinding grain performed during a recording session titled "Event 07: Women's songs - Bailhongal." The recording was created during the Bake Restudy Project in 1984 when Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy and Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy returned to the original sites of Arnold Adriaan Bake’s 1938 fieldwork in South India (Tamilnadu, Kerala, and Karnataka) in order to solicit responses to Bake’s photographs and audio recordings of various Indian performance traditions in an examination of continuity and change. Transcription by Sarvamangala Honnappa; translation and analysis by S.A. Krishnaiah.
Translation of a "Seventh month song" performed during a recording session titled "Event 07: Women's songs - Bailhongal." The song was transcribed by Sarvamangala Honnappa. The recording was created during the Bake Restudy Project in 1984 when Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy and Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy returned to the original sites of Arnold Adriaan Bake’s 1938 fieldwork in South India (Tamilnadu, Kerala, and Karnataka) in order to solicit responses to Bake’s photographs and audio recordings of various Indian performance traditions in an examination of continuity and change. The performers listened to a song from the 1938 Arnold Adriaan Bake archive, no. 70.1 "Song for women in their seventh month" performed by women from Wadagaum, then performed the song, "Seventh month song - "Arjunanā satina galu garbhini nathalu" (Arjuna's wife is pregnant). Transcription by Sarvamangala Honnappa; translation and analysis by S.A. Krishnaiah.
