Katey Blumenthal: The Folk Music of Lo Monthang: Offering Songs, Festive Songs, Processional Songs mGar-gLu, Khro-Glu, Phebsnga: Tashi Tsering's Music: Chang ma, 'Beer mother'

Duration: 1 min 18 secs
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Description: For the drinker of chang and offerer of chang. This is a song from Tibet, and Lobas don't always sing it. The changma (or mother of chang) offers chang will sing this in the evening to make sure that all the men get drunk -- and drink the whole jug of chang.
 
Created: 2013-04-05 16:18
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: World Oral Literature Project
Language: tib (Tibetan)
Keywords: Loba; Mustang; Kali Gandaki; Tibetan Folk Music; Mon;
Credits:
Director:  Katey Blumenthal
Actor:  Tashi Tsering
 
Abstract: 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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