| Description | Track 1: Kali Dasgupta continues to discuss Indian folk songs and culture. He talks about relationships between men and women, the use of different instruments in different villages in the same region, the similar pattern of songs from different areas of Bengal and the localisation of traditional songs 3.25 mins
Track 2: Kali Dasgupta sings a love song 3.00 mins
Track 3: he discusses the characteristics of village folk songs, particularly love songs, and describes the meaning of the lyrics of one song, which include familiar images of village life 5.27 mins
Track 4: he sings a song 1.16 mins
Track 5: Kali Dasgupta discusses the form of folk songs, the lack of Bengali folk culture in Calcutta because of its commercial interests and the influence of British administrators and merchants 3.03 mins
Track 6: Kali Dasgupta and Barbara Dane discuss the growth of protest movements and the peasant struggle, and the development of protest songs. Kali Dasgupta considers the influence of Western culture in India 1.38 mins
Track 7: Kali Dasgupta discusses the translation of La Marseillaise by protest singers, using the same tune, and sings an excerpt 1.38 mins
Track 8: he discusses the use of the tune to the Internationale and internationalism, and the songs that political activists from different areas of India would know 4.44 mins
Tracks 9-10: Barbara Dane and Kali Dasgupta both discuss working class struggles and the unity of different ethnic groups in protest movements, the translation of Bengali songs into Hindi, and the extent of the use of English by political activists
Total: 32.28 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF573E0717380 |