Naogaon

Naogaon is a district in Rajshahi division. The archive holds 24 recordings, no artists and no traditions from here.

BD506424 recordings

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Recordings

There was a song the listeners of Kaiarabani Dudhani sang for us, ‘Ot́ma lo̠lo̠’ (song 3, cylinder 4), which…
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They were all insiders to the sound of Arnold Bake’s recordings from the Dumka Hills, yet they were all…
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Mathias Hansda reminisced about his days in the Kairabani Mission school, as a student and teacher, about the…
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Listening to Boge gupi do in Kairabani. Recording by Sukanta Majumdar.
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Boge gupi do at Johar. The listeners immediately connected with the song.
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At Santahar station I wanted to get a feel of what the place must have been like when Bake came here all those…
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And we went to see Mansuruddin’s grave.
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On our first trip to Naogaon, there was a man in our train compartment with whom we had got talking.
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From these recordings, the listener will get a sense of place and time.
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These photographs by Sarker Protick capture for me something of that old time of what we were talking,…
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Then on the train to Santahar, Enamulbai and I chatted with a man from Joypurhat about the land and crops and…
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At Santahar station I wanted to get a feel of what the place must have been like when Bake came here all those…
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And we went to see Mansuruddin’s grave.
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I had my recorder open and was just walking through the place, and it was listening and recording, like I was…
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I had my recorder open and was just walking through the place, and it was listening and recording, like I was…
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I took out my laptop; I had my portable speaker with me this time, so that I could amplify the sound .
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All these recordings and images are made with my camera and Zoom H2N recorder
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On 9 October 2019, I set out for Rajshahi again, this time with the intention of finally reaching the village…
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Shamser fakir sings ‘Tin berar ek bagan’ and ‘Diner katha’ playing his harmonium.
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Ataur Rahaman Chishtia sings.
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The two years between the last trip and this one was spent trying to find out more about the singers and the…
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On 25 November 2018, I went by train to Rajshahi from Dhaka, my recorder receiving what sounds it found on the…
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It was Ataur Rahaman Chishtia who suggested that we go to the house of Rahim Chand Dewan, a famous singer of…
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Ten-year-old Ahsan Habib takes us to the house of Rahim Chand Dewan. We reach the door of Kabari Dewan.
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