Katey Blumenthal: The Folk Music of Lo Monthang: Offering Songs, Festive Songs, Processional Songs mGar-gLu, Khro-Glu, Phebsnga: Tashi Tsering's Music: Ngari Nga rang gi song, 'Appreciation for the town'
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| Description: | This song is figuratively about “rangma so tang”, a golden fly. It expresses appreciation for the town “ngari dzonkhar”, and about outsiders trying to enter such a place. |
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| Created: | 2013-04-08 11:14 | ||||
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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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