OLAC Record
oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1241326

Metadata
Title:Performance of wedding, mourning and children's songs by Weynishet Al'o and others
WA2012-01-16_001-005
Contributor:Laamo Yistaysa
Puttila Yistaysa
Kawtano Dorbo
Weynishet Al'o
Alemitu Ayyele
Contributor (researcher):Yvonne Treis
Coverage:Ethiopia
Date:2012-01-16
Description:The group of three women, Weynishet Al'o, Kawtano Dorbo and Alemitu Ayyele, was spontaneously enlarged by Laamo Yistaysa and Puttila Yistaysa. The group performs three mourning songs and one wedding song in the following order. File 001: harassa (mourning song), File 002: halle wossan geyssa (mourning song), Alemitu is temporarily absent when this song is performed, File 003: geetaro (wedding song) and File 004: benna hayshette (mourning song). Finally, Weynishet alone performs a children's song about the padd'o ('bat').
Laamo is Puttila Yistaysa's brother.
Puttila is Laamo Yistaysa's brother.
Yvonne Treis is a linguist and works on Ethiopian languages at CNRS in France.
Weynishet Al'o is a farmer from Mootikessa-Arzak'a, an Orthodox Christian, and a person with a great knowledge of wedding and mourning songs.
Format:audio/x-wav
Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1241326
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1241326%23
Subject:various song types
Basketo language
Baskeet
English language
Subject (ISO639):bst
eng
Type:Audio

OLAC Info

Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
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OAI Info

OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1241326
DateStamp:  2018-10-22
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Search Info

Citation: Laamo Yistaysa; Puttila Yistaysa; Kawtano Dorbo; Yvonne Treis (researcher); Weynishet Al'o; Alemitu Ayyele. 2012-01-16. Endangered Languages Archive.
Terms: area_Africa area_Europe country_ET country_GB iso639_bst iso639_eng

Inferred Metadata

Country: EthiopiaUnited Kingdom
Area: AfricaEurope


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