Collection: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Ethnomusicology Archive - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The goddess Kali surrounded by ceṇḍa (chenda) player during a part of the performance that took place among members of the audience. The explosion of fire was created by the practice of thelli eriyal--throwing pine resin on a lit torch. Pazhur Damodara Marar and party. Musicians: Kuruppanmar Marar. Pazhur Damodara Marar and party. Musicians: Kuruppanmar Marar.
Date:: April 7, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Two musicians, the one on the right playing a tudi hourglass drum. Performed by N. Kanhan Pujari and party.
Date:: April 8, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Two images of nagāṙā players at a theater before a tamasha performance: a naraga player (left) and D. M. Bhonsle playing “cangara” (nagāṙā?).” The diary of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy states “Recorded shehnai party. Not very good.”
Date:: December 16, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: At the workshop of Vilayat Hussain Brothers, instrument makers, and a gourd (tumba) in preparation for making a sitar or taṃbūrā.
Date:: December 19, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: A bānsurī (17 ½” flute), shehnai (21”), and tutari (58”) with a curved horn.
Date:: November 12, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: The Manahar Sangeet Vidyalaya music school was founded by Manahar Barve, a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist musician.
Date:: November 10, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Gondhal ceremony--Inauguration of the Archives. Close-up view of musician R. H. Garuda (sambal) performing a Jāgran (Hindu ritual): Vāghyā Muralī Jagran – Marathi devotional ritual music to Hindu deity Khaṇḍobā Goddess Amba.
Date:: February 8, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: A dresser adjusts the costume of dancer B. C. Balachandar for his performance of Kalyana Sougandhikam (“Auspicious Fragrant Lily”), an Ottan Thullal solo dance drama. It is similar to the “Rukmini Swayamvaram” Ottan Thullal recorded by A. A. Bake (Tefi 27.5) in Kottayam on 22 March 1938.
Date:: March 27, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Nine brass players of the Basavanneppa Band in front of an Indian Airlines bus at a wedding procession. “Basawaneppa Band Belgaum” is written on large a megaphone. The Basavanneppa Band included bass drums (2), side drums (2), snare drums (2), clarinets (3), baritone horns (3), trumpets (4), and tubas (2). The location is 35/1 Vardhappa Rd., Belgaum 590004.
Date:: February 18, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

Description:: Close-up view of a musical instrument used by a member of a Villupāttu ensemble holding an unidentified musical instrument (also known as Villupattu, Villadichampaatu, and Villisai).
Date:: March 17, 1984
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Catlin-Jairazbhoy, Amy
Collection:: Bake/Jairazbhoy Digital Archive of South Asian Traditional Music and Arts

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