Zla ba sgrol ma: Oral Literature of the Sman shad Valley
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The recordings within this collection are from the Sman shad Valley of Sde dge county in the Dkar mzdes Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture region and were recorded during the October and November of 2009.
This collection presents over forty audio files including several folk song genres, folktales and local history.
Collection Details:
Collection: Oral Literature of the Sman shad Valley
Collector: Zla ba sgrol ma
Date(s): 2009
Language(s): Khams Tibetan
1. Building Songs 1
Male villagers sing building songs.
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2. Building Songs 2
Male villagers sing building songs.
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3. Building Songs 3
Male villagers sing building songs.
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4. Building Songs 4
Skar ma chos mdzin provides a building song. Such songs are traditionally sung antiphonally between two groups of men while they are ramming walls.
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5. Building Songs 5
Skar ma chos mdzin sings a building song. Such songs are traditionally sung antiphonally between two groups of men while they are ramming walls.
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6. Building Songs 6
Skar ma chos mdzin sings a building song. Such songs are traditionally sung antiphonally between two groups of men while they are ramming walls.
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7. Building Songs 7
Skar ma chos mdzin sings a building song. Such songs are traditionally sung antiphonally between two groups of men while they are ramming walls.
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8. Building Songs 8
Skar ma chos mdzin sings a building song. Such songs are traditionally sung antiphonally between two groups of men while they are ramming walls.
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9. Building Songs 9
Skar ma chos mdzin provide the Building song. Songs are traditionally sung antiphonally between two groups of men when they are ramming walls.
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10. Building Songs 10
Male villagers sing a building song.
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11. Building Songs 11
Male villagers sing a building song.
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12. The Ge sar Epic
Skar ma chos mzdin recites a portion of the Ge sar epic.
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13. A Fodder Collecting Song
Foder collecting songs are sung antiphonally between two people or groups of people. Such songs can be sung by anyone, but are mostly sung by youths when they cut grass in the autumn.
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14. A Harvest Song
While harvesting people sing harvest songs antiphonally between two people or two groups of people.
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15. Milking Song 1
This milking song is sung by women when they are milking a female yak who is nursing a calf for the first time.
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16. Milking Song 2
This milking song is sung by women when they are milking the new livestock mother.
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17. Milking Song 3
Bo nyed provides a milking song. Women sing this milking song to sooth livestock who have recently given birth for the first time.
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18. Milking Song 4
Bo nyed provides a milking song and discusses where and why such songs are sung.
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19. A Love Song 1
Love songs are traditionally sung antiphonally between two people who may be of the same or different genders, mostly when herding, but also at parties, or when people are on the mountains digging caterpillar fungus.
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20. A Love Song 2
Love songs are traditionally sung antiphonally between two people who may be of the same or different genders, mostly when herding, but also at parties, or when people are on the mountains digging caterpillar fungus.
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21. A Love Song 3
Love songs are traditionally sung antiphonally between two people who may be of the same or different genders, mostly when herding, but also at parties, or when people are on the mountains digging caterpillar fungus.
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22. A Love Song 4
Love songs are traditionally sung antiphonally between two people who may be of the same or different genders, mostly when herding, but also at parties, or when people are on the mountains digging caterpillar fungus.
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23. A Love Song 5
Love songs are traditionally sung antiphonally between two people who may be of the same or different genders, mostly when herding, but also at parties, or when people are on the mountains digging caterpillar fungusn.
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24. A Love Song 6
Love songs are traditionally sung antiphonally between two people who may be of the same or different genders, mostly when herding, but also at parties, or when people are on the mountains digging caterpillar fungus.
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25. A Love Song 7
Love songs are traditionally sung antiphonally between two people who may be of the same or different genders, mostly when herding, but also at parties, or when people are on the mountains digging caterpillar fungus.
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26. Sman shad Dance Song 1
Dance song participants sing as they dance in a circle. They do not have any musical instruments to accompany their dancing. The songs are high pitched and tuneful, with irregular rhythms.
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27. Sman shad Dance Song 2
Dance song participants sing as they dance in a circle. They do not have any musical instruments to accompany their dancing. The songs are high pitched and tuneful, with irregular rhythms.
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28. Sman shad Dance Song 3
Dance songs participants sing as they dance in a circle. They do not have any musical instruments to accompany their dancing. The songs are high pitched and tuneful, with irregular rhythms.
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29. A Threshing Song and Discussion
Threshing songs are sung antiphonally between two people or two groups of people when threshing. Such songs can be sung by anyone, but are mostly sung by young people. Both men and women sing threshing song as they thresh barley. This file also contains a discussion of the genre by the singer.
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30. A Threshing Song
Threshing songs are sung antiphonally between two people or two groups of people when threshing. Such songs can be sung by anyone, but are mostly sung by young people. Both men and women sing threshing songs as they thresh barley.
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31. The ma Ni Song 1
The ma Ni song is a traditional religious song, sung on pilgrimage to holy places, herding livestock on the mountains, and when holding a smyung gnas 'fasting ritual'.
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32. The ma Ni Song 2
The ma Ni song is a traditional religious song, sung on pilgrimage to holy places, herding livestock on the mountains, and when holding a smyung gnas 'fasting ritual'.
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33. The ma Ni Song 3
The ma Ni song is a traditional religious song, sung on pilgrimage to holy places, herding livestock on the mountains, and when holding a smyung gnas 'fasting ritual'.
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34. The ma Ni Song 4
The ma Ni song is a traditional religious song, sung on pilgrimage to holy places, herding livestock on the mountains, and when holding a smyung gnas 'fasting ritual'.
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35. The ma Ni Song 5
The ma Ni song is a traditional religious song, sung on pilgrimage to holy places, herding livestock on the mountains, and when holding a smyung gnas 'fasting ritual'.
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36. Mgur mo
Mgur mo are songs mostly about love, and are sung to mgur mo lovers. People who sing mgur mo are usually youths between the ages of seventeen and twenty nine, usually when they gather for picnics or parties. They use mgur mo to tell their fortune about their future lover.
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37. A Herding Song
Such herding songs are typically sung when herding livestock on mountains.
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38. Plowing Speech
This file contains a plowing speech and a discussion about the speech.
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39. The Annual Agricultural Cycle
This interview is about the annual agricultural cycle in Sman shad Valley.
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40. A Folk Tale of a Man Who Saves Three Animals
This folk tale relates how a young man saves three animals – a mouse, a bear, and a monkey – who later repay their debt of gratitude to him.
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41. Local History
Blo gros phun mtshong born, 1948 provides details on local history.
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42. A Folk Tale of the Trickster Mching nges
This folktale describes the exploits of the trickster Mchig nges.
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43. Local Home Remedies
In this interview Dben zen discusses a number of local home remedies.
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44. The Exploits of Sman shad’s mythical founder, Dge rab shad po can
This oral history account describes the exploits of Sman shad’s mythical founder, Dge rab shad po can.
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