General information

Call No.:

437-1-20:5/1

Part of series

HU OSA 437-1-20 Digital Archive of Cultural Heritage: Intangible Cultural Heritage: Oral Tradition of Zanskar

Located at

Digital container #5 / No. 1

Date

2018

Level

Item

Primary Type

Audio

Language

Ladakhi

Duration

4 min. 15 sec.

Notes

This item is available in the Digital Repository.

Content

Form/Genre

Interview, Raw material

Contents Summary

Wangail is in his seventies and used to be a lurspon or semi-professional wedding singer. He was famous for this skills as a lurspon and used to be invited to wedding ceremonies all over the valley. He became a lurspon following the footsteps of his elder brother and father, who were also lurspons. His own son, however, a village teacher, was not interested in becoming a lurspon, putting an end to the family tradition. In the interviews made with him he talks about the role and duties of lurspons, and about how weddings were celebrated in the past, before modernization and the consequent social transformation changed the traditional way. Wangail is also singing the Weddings Songs (Bagston Glu) that are part of this collection.

Context

Associated Names

Lurspon, Wangail (Interviewee)

Namgail, Stanzin (Donor)