RecordingBarishal

This rare and precious recording of Nabani Das Khepa Baul and others would likely have stayed in the British…

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Title as given by the source: This rare and precious recording of Nabani Das Khepa Baul and others would likely have stayed in the British Library Sound Archives, unnoticed, unnamed and unplayed for some more time, had I not accidentally come across it in 2018. I am not making a claim to any special talent as a researcher, but I suppose I was fortunate to have been at the right place at the right time with the right curiosity. I have written a detailed session note on the recording in The Travelling Archive’s Recording Sessions page for 2019. The process of putting the names of the iconic Nabani Das Khepa Baul (1890-1964), his son Purna Das Baul and others to file numbers C52/NEP/67 and 68 was a longwinded journey. It was like an archaeological excavation, এটি একটি খননের গল্প, as I wrote in the Sunday supplement of Ananda Bazar Patrika in August 2020. Young Purna Das Baul was performing at the third Banga Sanskriti Sammelan in Kolkata, with his father Nabani Das in 1956. In 2019, it was very emotional for Purna Das to listen to his father, sister, Radharani, brother-in-law, Gopal Das, and friend, Sudhananda Das Baul, as well as to himself when he was 22, going on 23. It was even more emotional as everyone except Sudhananda is no more. He remembered details of the performance, of the audience, the ambience. Perhaps he was not remembering everything exactly as it happened, but from what he was saying it was clear how things used to happen between them those days, how his father would perform, what they sang and the dynamic on stage.
Place: BarishalLocation is approximate — known to district level.
Date: Date unknown
Collection: The Travelling Archive
Persistent ID: BDMA-R-000391

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APA: This rare and precious recording of Nabani Das Khepa Baul and others would likely have stayed in the British Library Sound Archives, unnoticed, unnamed and unplayed for some more time, had I not accidentally come across it in 2018. I am not making a claim to any special talent as a researcher, but I suppose I was fortunate to have been at the right place at the right time with the right curiosity. I have written a detailed session note on the recording in The Travelling Archive’s Recording Sessions page for 2019. The process of putting the names of the iconic Nabani Das Khepa Baul (1890-1964), his son Purna Das Baul and others to file numbers C52/NEP/67 and 68 was a longwinded journey. It was like an archaeological excavation, এটি একটি খননের গল্প, as I wrote in the Sunday supplement of Ananda Bazar Patrika in August 2020. Young Purna Das Baul was performing at the third Banga Sanskriti Sammelan in Kolkata, with his father Nabani Das in 1956. In 2019, it was very emotional for Purna Das to listen to his father, sister, Radharani, brother-in-law, Gopal Das, and friend, Sudhananda Das Baul, as well as to himself when he was 22, going on 23. It was even more emotional as everyone except Sudhananda is no more. He remembered details of the performance, of the audience, the ambience. Perhaps he was not remembering everything exactly as it happened, but from what he was saying it was clear how things used to happen between them those days, how his father would perform, what they sang and the dynamic on stage.. (n.d.). The Travelling Archive. Shurer Manchitra. https://shurer-manchitra.pages.dev/en/recordings/BDMA-R-000391 Original: https://www.thetravellingarchive.org/nabanidas-baul-3rd-banga-sankriti-sammelan/
Chicago: "This rare and precious recording of Nabani Das Khepa Baul and others would likely have stayed in the British Library Sound Archives, unnoticed, unnamed and unplayed for some more time, had I not accidentally come across it in 2018. I am not making a claim to any special talent as a researcher, but I suppose I was fortunate to have been at the right place at the right time with the right curiosity. I have written a detailed session note on the recording in The Travelling Archive’s Recording Sessions page for 2019. The process of putting the names of the iconic Nabani Das Khepa Baul (1890-1964), his son Purna Das Baul and others to file numbers C52/NEP/67 and 68 was a longwinded journey. It was like an archaeological excavation, এটি একটি খননের গল্প, as I wrote in the Sunday supplement of Ananda Bazar Patrika in August 2020. Young Purna Das Baul was performing at the third Banga Sanskriti Sammelan in Kolkata, with his father Nabani Das in 1956. In 2019, it was very emotional for Purna Das to listen to his father, sister, Radharani, brother-in-law, Gopal Das, and friend, Sudhananda Das Baul, as well as to himself when he was 22, going on 23. It was even more emotional as everyone except Sudhananda is no more. He remembered details of the performance, of the audience, the ambience. Perhaps he was not remembering everything exactly as it happened, but from what he was saying it was clear how things used to happen between them those days, how his father would perform, what they sang and the dynamic on stage.." Recorded in Barishal. n.d. The Travelling Archive. Shurer Manchitra, BDMA-R-000391. https://shurer-manchitra.pages.dev/en/recordings/BDMA-R-000391. Original at https://www.thetravellingarchive.org/nabanidas-baul-3rd-banga-sankriti-sammelan/.
Persistent URL: https://shurer-manchitra.pages.dev/en/recordings/BDMA-R-000391

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