Katey Blumenthal: The Folk Music of Lo Monthang: Offering Songs, Festive Songs, Processional Songs mGar-gLu, Khro-Glu, Phebsnga: Tashi Tsering's Music: Ka wa ma gyur, 'The unchanging pillar'
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| Description: | This song is about the life and vitality of Lo remaining ever constant. No dance accompanies this song. It is sung especially among the Emeda/Kali Gandaki Group. |
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| Created: | 2013-04-08 10:20 | ||||
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| 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; | ||||
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| 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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