OLAC Record
oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1267857

Metadata
Title:Elderly women sing traditional songs
KWB062
A documentation project of Baa, a language of Nigeria
Contributor:Elisha
Contributor (depositor):Mirjam
Contributor (speaker):Talato
Ishaya
Sarka
Zilpa
Coverage:Nigeria
Date:2017-03-19
Description:Hakim Fredrik sits with elderly women in Kwah to sing traditional songs together. Song 1 is a Nyaso song about the strength of a young man. Song 2 speaks about elders crying that Baa people are scattered like Fulani cows. That all the young men have left the village for the bush outside Baa land, used to refer to the big cities Lagos, Abudja etc. Song 3 speaks about Manban a god worshipped among the Baa. Song 4 is a song for hunting festival when every clan meet to show the animal they have killed. This song is sung without the accompanying of drums. The ELAN file currently includes only some segments with orthographic transcription. For further descriptions of file names and tier names see the corpus manual available in the archive.
Lives in Lagos but originally from Gyakan.
Lives in Abuja, originally from Kwah.
Format:audio/x-wav
video/mp4
text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1267857
baa-moeller-0431
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1267857%23
Subject:Singing
Kwa language
Subject (ISO639):kwb
Type:Audio
Video

OLAC Info

Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
Description:  http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OAI Info

OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1267857
DateStamp:  2019-02-25
GetRecord:  OAI-PMH request for simple DC format

Search Info

Citation: Elisha; Mirjam (depositor); Talato (speaker); Ishaya (speaker); Sarka (speaker); Zilpa (speaker). 2017-03-19. Endangered Languages Archive.
Terms: area_Africa country_NG iso639_kwb

Inferred Metadata

Country: Nigeria
Area: Africa


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