Offering Songs, Festive Songs, Processional Songs mGar-gLu, Khro-Glu, Phebsnga: Tashi Tsering's Music: Peekit Pinda Tsebul, 'The season when the ploughing begins'
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Audio
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Authors
Blumenthal, Katey
Abstract
Sung from house to house for blessing the crops during the harvest. Primarily a collection of folk and religious offering songs sung by a specialised class of folk singers (Emeda) in Lo. Most of these songs are sung by Tashi Tsering, the last remaining Emeda singer in Lo. In many of these songs, he accompanies himself with the nha, a pair of large kettledrums played with wooden mallets. Other 'khro glu are sung by women in Lo Monthang, Yandol, Pema Dolkar, and Khang Lhamo.
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.wav audio file
Keywords
Loba, Mustang, Kali Gandaki, Tibetan Folk Music, Mon
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Publisher
World Oral Literature Project