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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/CO00000007/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Tuareg 'ezelay' (male sung heroic ballad) (T5B)
- Alternate Title:
- T5B Tuareg 'ezelay' (male sung heroic ballad)
- Creator:
- Oxby, Clare ( contributor )
- Place of Publication:
- [London]
- Publisher:
- Clare Oxby
- Publication Date:
- 1974
- Language:
- English
Notes
- Abstract:
- All songs by an enad (smith), Marteau’s nephew. Some ballads finish off in the spoken word. The last is short, not in Tamashek but in Hausa, the local trading language. ( en )
- General Note:
- Continued from [audio title]: T5A Tuareg 'ezelay' (male sung heroic ballad)
- General Note:
- Languges: Tamashek and Hausa
- General Note:
- Date of recording: Rainy season (summer) 1974
- General Note:
- Location: Nomadic camp near Gadabeji. between Maradi and Agadez, Niger
- General Note:
- Occasion: Marteau's nephew was visiting the camp, he had a reputation for excellence in singing 'ezelay' (heroic ballads), see [audio title] "T5A Tuareg 'ezelay' (male sung heroic ballad)". Marteau called me to bring my tape recorder, he knew I was interested in these performances. Moving occasions, with spontaneous approval, including yodelling by women, from the enthralled group that spontaneously gathered to listen under Marteau’s leather tent and metal workshop.
- General Note:
- 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
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Rights Management:
- All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.
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