A Letter to Brenda From Peggy Broadhead

Broadhead, Peggy

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Authors

Broadhead, Peggy

Contributors

Wilkinson, Eleanor

Publication Date

1941-12-07

Publisher

World Oral Literature Project

Type

Manuscript

Metadata

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Citation

Broadhead, P. (1941). A Letter to Brenda From Peggy Broadhead. [Manuscript]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/230168

Description

This letter refers to Peggy Broadhead, the recording engineer and the Malay driver going out to record hauling songs of the Madrassi fishermen, but also of the perilous conditions that they have to work in. There is also discussion of the dances performed by those who live in the jungle. There is reference to to a Wayang Kulit, a puppet show which they recorded

Format

Typed document

Keywords

Oral Literature, Oral Tradition, Linguistic Anthropology, Ple-Temiar, Malaysia, Bersei, Perak, Grik, Music, Folklore

Temporal Coverage

December 7th 1941

Identifiers

This record's URL: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/230168

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported