OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1281302

Metadata
Title:		Dance Song – Ngabro (literally: Drum Dance)
		Shakti_080809_2_Dance_Song
		Tawang in NE India: recordings of traditional and liturgical local music
Contributor:		Maling Wangchuk
		Gen Namgye
		Tashi Wangchul
Coverage:		India
Date:		2009-08-08
Description:		Unique to Shakti. The origins of the Ngabro are said to lie in a story about how the Lopon Rinpoche / Guru Padmasambhava was invited by Songtsen Gonpo, the King of Tibet, to intercede so that the Samyang Gonpa in Lhasa could be build free or disruptions by demons. The Lopon Rinpoche, it is said, vanquished the demons and then threw into the gonpa's lake three objects: a drum, a monkey mask and a prayer book (/book of incantations). An eight-year-old boy, Pon Bali, picked these up many years (/generations) later and found in himself, miraculously, the ability to read the incantations and to play the drum, which he did, wearing the monkey mask. The song lyrics say: Children, choose for us a place. Pig: go choose a rock. Sheep: go pick up the stone.
		Has been singing for 15 years.
		Has been singing for two years.
		Has been singing for 16 years.
Format:		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1281302
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1281302%23
Subject:		Song
		Tawang Monpa language
		Tawang
Subject (ISO639):		twm
Type:		Audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1281302
DateStamp:		2019-04-02
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Maling Wangchuk; Gen Namgye; Tashi Wangchul. 2009-08-08. Endangered Languages Archive.
Terms:		area_Asia country_IN iso639_twm
Inferred Metadata
Country:		India
Area:		Asia