OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI583465

Metadata
Title:		Wake: A comfort song
		0136-Wake: A comfort song
		A description and documentation of Avatime
Contributor:		Sammy Kwami Oboni (Recorder)
Coverage:		Ghana
Date:		2008-09-26
Description:		This recording was made at a wake keeping the night before the funeral of Geoffrey Adjabeng, a clan leader. The men gathered at one of the meeting places in the village and spent the night giving speeches, singing and drinking. This event was recorded by Sammy. No outside observer was present.In this recording some songs are sung and some conversation takes place. It has not been transcribed or translated. On this recording, the people who attend the wake keeping first sing a comfort song in Ewe. Then there is some drumming and the people talk a bit amongst themselves in Avatime. Then they sing the Ewe song again. The songs are sung in Ewe. Conversation takes place in Avatime. Sammy records. Several people sing and converse.
		Language_Name: Avatime Language_Region: Africa Language_Country: Ghana Project_Status: Complete Year: 2008 Start_Date: 2008-05-01 End_Date: 2008-12-31
Format:		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI583465
		FTG0145
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI583465%23
Publisher:		Saskia Van Putten
		Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)
Subject:		Discourse
		Undetermined language
		Ewe
		Avatime (Dominant)
Subject (ISO639):		und
Type:		Audio
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:MPI583465
DateStamp:		2016-09-27
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Sammy Kwami Oboni (Recorder). 2008-09-26. Saskia Van Putten.
Terms:		iso639_und
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