Yolu, Baljinima Jana
Authors
Ujeed, Uranchimeg
Publication Date
2012-11Publisher
World Oral Literature Project
Language
Other
Type
Video
Metadata
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Ujeed, U. (2012). Yolu, Baljinima Jana [Video file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244028
Description
.mp4 video file
Abstract
This is a performance of Yolu-yin Modu Band consists of locals. Another short version of the narrative song Baljinima Jana. In this collection, there are 40 video recordings of Horchin Mongolian songs made during fieldwork in 2010 and 2011 respectively. The collection contains songs by bards and amateur singers as well as ordinary people. Although most of them are narrative songs, only a few of them are sung in the proper manner as they were in the past. Most of them are sung in fractions. There are also interviews about local knowledge of the narrative songs, the historical facts the songs are based on, the song characters, the occasions the songs are sung, different people’s attitudes towards the different style of singing, their ideas about the present endangered state of the songs, their longing to and difficulty of maintaining the tradition etc.
Keywords
horchin mongolian, oral tradition, narrative song, four stringed fiddle, bard
Spatial Coverage
Yolunmodu sumu of Horchin Left Wing Middle Banner of Tongliao city (former Jirim League) of Inner Mongolia, China
Temporal Coverage
16th September 2011
Identifiers
This record's URL: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244028
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported
Licence URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/
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