রেকর্ডিংচট্টগ্রাম
On 24 November 2016, I went to Noakhali in eastern Bangladesh with sound recordist Ali Ahsan, searching for…
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- উৎসে দেওয়া শিরোনাম
- On 24 November 2016, I went to Noakhali in eastern Bangladesh with sound recordist Ali Ahsan, searching for Tazal Ahmed, who had sung two songs for Arnold Bake on board the Streefkerk in 1934. Following the leads from the catalogue of the Berlin Phonogramm Archiv, I wondered if some family of Tazal Ahmed could still be found in his village Ghutia in Noakhali Shadar (usually written as Sadar, but Bake was probably writing as he listened; he was writing the sound)? The recording was more than 80 years old, so there was of course no chance of finding the singer. But perhaps someone with some connection would tell us something? Perhaps he had settled in London or somewhere else in the UK, as many sailors did? Perhaps someone would be able to say something about the song? So, the first stop would have to be Noakhali Sadar. Ali and I took a bus from Dhaka to Noakhali and went to the office of the District Magistrate. No one seemed to have heard of Ghutia, but some people talked about Sholla Ghutia. So that is where we went, but realised that it was a fairly new place, formed as a result of the rising of a new char or silt island. They talked about the River Bhulua, which had changed its course over the last forty years, washing away places which would have existed in the 1930s. Sadar now is not how Sadar was then. Could it then be that the river had washed away Tazal Ahmed’s Ghutia village?
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- চট্টগ্রামস্থানটি আনুমানিক — district পর্যন্ত জানা।
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- সময় জানা নেই
- স্থায়ী পরিচিতি
- BDMA-R-000342
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- এপিএ
- On 24 November 2016, I went to Noakhali in eastern Bangladesh with sound recordist Ali Ahsan, searching for Tazal Ahmed, who had sung two songs for Arnold Bake on board the Streefkerk in 1934. Following the leads from the catalogue of the Berlin Phonogramm Archiv, I wondered if some family of Tazal Ahmed could still be found in his village Ghutia in Noakhali Shadar (usually written as Sadar, but Bake was probably writing as he listened; he was writing the sound)? The recording was more than 80 years old, so there was of course no chance of finding the singer. But perhaps someone with some connection would tell us something? Perhaps he had settled in London or somewhere else in the UK, as many sailors did? Perhaps someone would be able to say something about the song? So, the first stop would have to be Noakhali Sadar. Ali and I took a bus from Dhaka to Noakhali and went to the office of the District Magistrate. No one seemed to have heard of Ghutia, but some people talked about Sholla Ghutia. So that is where we went, but realised that it was a fairly new place, formed as a result of the rising of a new char or silt island. They talked about the River Bhulua, which had changed its course over the last forty years, washing away places which would have existed in the 1930s. Sadar now is not how Sadar was then. Could it then be that the river had washed away Tazal Ahmed’s Ghutia village?. (n.d.). The Travelling Archive. Shurer Manchitra. https://shurer-manchitra.pages.dev/bn/recordings/BDMA-R-000342 Original: https://www.thetravellingarchive.org/tazal-ahmed-noakhali/
- শিকাগো
- "On 24 November 2016, I went to Noakhali in eastern Bangladesh with sound recordist Ali Ahsan, searching for Tazal Ahmed, who had sung two songs for Arnold Bake on board the Streefkerk in 1934. Following the leads from the catalogue of the Berlin Phonogramm Archiv, I wondered if some family of Tazal Ahmed could still be found in his village Ghutia in Noakhali Shadar (usually written as Sadar, but Bake was probably writing as he listened; he was writing the sound)? The recording was more than 80 years old, so there was of course no chance of finding the singer. But perhaps someone with some connection would tell us something? Perhaps he had settled in London or somewhere else in the UK, as many sailors did? Perhaps someone would be able to say something about the song? So, the first stop would have to be Noakhali Sadar. Ali and I took a bus from Dhaka to Noakhali and went to the office of the District Magistrate. No one seemed to have heard of Ghutia, but some people talked about Sholla Ghutia. So that is where we went, but realised that it was a fairly new place, formed as a result of the rising of a new char or silt island. They talked about the River Bhulua, which had changed its course over the last forty years, washing away places which would have existed in the 1930s. Sadar now is not how Sadar was then. Could it then be that the river had washed away Tazal Ahmed’s Ghutia village?." Recorded in Chattogram. n.d. The Travelling Archive. Shurer Manchitra, BDMA-R-000342. https://shurer-manchitra.pages.dev/bn/recordings/BDMA-R-000342. Original at https://www.thetravellingarchive.org/tazal-ahmed-noakhali/.
- স্থায়ী ঠিকানা
- https://shurer-manchitra.pages.dev/bn/recordings/BDMA-R-000342