Dates
- Creation: 1979 - 1981
Extent
31 audiocassettes (Sound recordings (sound cassettes))1 sound disc (shellac) (78 rpm)
2 folders (Folders containing notes and transcription of collection and related content.)
Physical Location
Harvard Repository
General note
These tapes are labeled "Bapa's tapes."
General note
1. These tapes were gifted by Jayasinhji Jhala [ bapa] in the 1980s when he was a PhD student at Harvard. How this came about was by way of a course he took with Prof John Ward and Rulan Piang. Both Professors said this material was most valuable and should be collected in the archive. Bapa acted on their advice.
2. These 31 tapes contain the music of the royal house of Dhrangadhra in Western Indian Province of Gujarat in India
3. There are 305 items. Songs sung by:
a.Male Coutrsinger Bhagavati Prasad [ Brahman]
b.Female Courtsingers Ala Rakhi Bai Langha and Hemu Bai Mir [ Muslim]
c.Female song by Khvas and Rajput maids
d.Alla Rakha Nagarchi [ Muslim] who plays instruments- shenai and kettle drums.
4. There are some spoken sections where speakers describe their lives and the songs.
5. The songs range from songs of special events such as coronations and deaths, to songs associated with particular annual festivals as well as others that are songs associated with daily life of the female or Zenana Court. They are sung in the local Jhalavadi dialect of Gujarati.
Repository Details
Part of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library Repository
The Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library is the primary repository of musical materials at Harvard. The Music Library’s collecting mission is to serve music teaching and research programs in the Music Department and throughout the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In addition, it supports the musical needs of the broader Harvard community as well as an international scholarly constituency. We collect books, musical scores, serial titles, sound recordings and video formats, microforms, and rare and archival materials that support research in a wide variety of musical disciplines including historical musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, composition, and historically informed performance practice, as well as interdisciplinary areas related to music. The special collections include archival collections from the 19th, 20th and 21st century.
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