| Description | Kali Dasgupta performs Indian folk songs from North Bengal and explains the stories recounted in the songs
Track 1: recording setup 0.17 mins
Track 2: Kali Dasgupta introduces a song about a newly married wife and a man expressing his feelings through onomatopoeia 1.45 mins
Track 3: Kali Dasgupta performs the song 3.01 mins
Track 4: Kali Dasgupta introduces his next song about an elephant catcher or Mahout. The song is sung when the Mahouts are taming the elephants 0.56 mins
Track 5: Kali Dasgupta performs the song sung by Mahouts 5.25 mins
Track 6: Kali Dasgupta introduces his next song about a buffalo herd and his wife 1.04 mins
Track 7: Kali Dasgupta performs the song about the buffalo herd 3.27 mins
Track 8: recording setup 0.18 mins
Track 9: Charles Parker introduces the next songs, from East Bengal, and Kali Das Gupta introduces his next song, known as the 'boatman's song', traditionally sung at the end of the day, and discusses the meaning of the lyrics 1.15 mins
Track 10: Kali Dasgupta performs the boatman's song 5.11 mins
Track 11: Kali Dasgupta introduces his next song which is set in the context of the All India Peasants Conference during the famine in Bengal in the 1940s at which Sufis sang about what was happening at the time. He discusses the meaning of the fragment of the song he will perform 2.20 mins
Track 12: Kali Dasgupta performs a fragment of the Sufi song and introduces another protest song from 1952 in East Pakistan 1.21 mins
Track 13: Kali Dasgupta performs the protest song 5.15 mins
Track 14: Kali Dasgupta repeats his performance of the protest song 1.01 mins
Total: 32.38 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0876880 |