Wedding Songs – Bagston Glu: Tong-lang nyilo-mai glu

Call Number
437-1-20:21/1

General information

Call No.:
437-1-20:21/1
Part of series
HU OSA 437-1-20 Digital Archive of Cultural Heritage: Intangible Cultural Heritage: Oral Tradition of Zanskar
Located at
Digital container #21 / No. 1
Date
2018
Level
Item
Primary Type
Audio
Language
Ladakhi
Duration
54 min. 50 sec.
Notes
This item is available in the Digital Repository.

Content

Form/Genre
Raw material
Contents Summary
Tong-lang nyilo-mai glu is a wedding song sung by Wangail, a wedding singer or Lurspon- May-may, in a traditional question-and-answer format. As part of the wedding ceremony, the groom’s party is going to the bride’s house to collect the bride from her father. The bride’s party previously put some stones, each a few meters from the other, forming a path leading to the bride’s house. The stone-path starts some fifty or hundred meters from the house and finally stops at the door. The groom’s party has to stop at each stone and they have to answer a question raised by the party of the bride. Both the question and the answer are in song form. The leader of the bride’s party holds a willow stick and if he is not satisfied with the answers, he beats the members of the groom’s party. After a successful answer is sung, each stone is kicked over. The recording contains both the questions of the bride’s part and the answers of the groom’s party.

Context

Associated Names
Lurspon, Wangail (Performer)
Namgail, Stanzin (Donor)

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage
India