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


Collection Information

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Digital Archive of Cultural Heritage (view collection record)

General Information

Title:
Wedding Songs – Bagston Glu: Tong-lang nyilo-mai glu
Created:
2018
Language:
Ladakhi
Physical Description:
1 audio file
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Content

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

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Source:
HU OSA 437-1-20 Oral Tradition of Zanskar (HU OSA 437-1-20)
Associated Names:
Lurspon, Wangail (Performer)
Part of Series:
HU OSA 437-1-20 Oral Tradition of Zanskar

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Access and Use

Rights Statement:
Rights Reserved - Free Access
Archival ID:
HU OSA 437-1-20:21/1
Suggested Citation:
"Wedding Songs – Bagston Glu: Tong-lang nyilo-mai glu", 2018. HU OSA 437-1-20:21/1; HU OSA 437-1-20 Oral Tradition of Zanskar; Open Society Archives at Central European University, Budapest.
Permanent URI:
http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:6c05b127-ab37-437b-8f69-33d761238872
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