Tuareg 'ezelay' (male sung heroic ballad) (T4B)
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Title:
Tuareg 'ezelay' (male sung heroic ballad) (T4B)
Alternate Title:
T4B Tuareg 'ezelay' (male sung heroic ballad)
Creator:
Oxby, Clare ( contributor )
Place of Publication:
[London]
Publisher:
Clare Oxby
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Language:
English

Subjects

Subjects / Keywords:
Tuaregs -- Social life and customs ( lcsh )
Folk songs ( lcsh )
Folk dance music ( lcsh )
Blacksmiths ( lcsh )
Inadan (African caste)
Spatial Coverage:
Africa -- Niger -- Maradi Region -- Dakoro Department -- Gadabedji
Coordinates:
14.98851833 x 7.285277667

Notes

Abstract:
0-11 by an enad (smith) Dali, 11-13 prayer recital by boys from the visiting ‘prayer boy school’ traveling with their teacher, 13- 31 songs by the elder enad (smith), Marteau ( en )
General Note:
Language: Tamashek = Tamajeq (Ayr Region form of Tuareg Berber)
General Note:
Date of recording: Dry season (spring) 1974
General Note:
Location: Nomadic camp near Gadabeji. between Maradi and Agadez, Niger
General Note:
Occasion: 'Inadan' (blacksmiths) camp, hammering craft noises. Inadan provide services to high status Tuareg, they live nearby: craftsmen in metal, wood and leather, musicians, political advisers. Songs begins with 'amadal' (land, homeland). About (mainly male) community leaders and heroes past and present, events, achievements, tragedies, unrequited love, nostalgia for the past.
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Contributors: ‘inadan’ (blacksmiths) in nomadic camp
General Note:
Related: Oxby, Clare. Sexual division and slavery in a Twareg community : a study of dependence. (Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1978.) https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.467947/
General Note:
VIAF (name authority) : Oxby, Clare : URI http://viaf.org/viaf/70299390

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SOAS University of London
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