Pirojpur

Pirojpur is a district in Barishal division. The archive holds 14 recordings, no artists and no traditions from here.

BD107914 recordings

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Recordings

These are 17 clips of varying length of found footage from 1994, which was given by the Mitra Thakurs of…
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Rahi describes the Sohrai festival as they used to celebrate at home and questions of patriarchy within the…
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What is the sohrai? Is it a harvest festival?
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They talk about different kinds of songs, what song is sung when, the difference between the songs and rituals…
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Rahi says that she has been trying to identify variations within the Santali language, by listening to migrant…
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Rahi hums tunes and explains the different forms of Santali songs and the meanings of words.
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We were talking about the Famine song that Bake recorded and all our listeners responded to (here is the…
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After 2017, I met several people, native speakers of Santali or scholars, with whom I listened not only to…
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I saw a song and dance sequence in a recent Bangla film featuring Santals and was thinking what Rahi might…
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I listened with Susil and Biswajit to the Kairabani recordings that we had made in 2017 (listen to some of…
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The Arnold Bake recordings from Dumka began with a flute which the Kairabani listeners had identified as the…
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The ‘koler gari’ song, sung by Moushumi, Biswajit and Susil Mandi, on 31 March 2019.
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There was an image with Soumitra’s Facebook post, the one about Hul and his headmaster and Harma’s Village.
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She has written about how the Santal Hul (revolution) of 1855-56 was one such landmark revolt fought by the…
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