| Description | Copy of the second tape of songs recorded for 'Snowballs in Calcutta'. Kali Dasgupta performs Indian folk songs from North Bengal and explains the stories recounted in the songs
Track 1: Charles Parker introduces the recordings 0.11 mins
Track 2: Kali Dasgupta introduces a song about a newly married wife and a man expressing his feelings through onomatopoeia and performs the song 4.48 mins
Track 3: Kali Dasgupta introduces and performs his next song about an elephant catcher or Mahout. The song is sung when the Mahouts are taming the elephants 6.15 mins
Track 4: Kali Dasgupta introduces and performs his next song about a buffalo herd and his wife 4.35 mins
Track 5: Charles Parker introduces the next songs, from East Bengal, and Kali Dasgupta introduces and performs his next song, known as the 'boatman's song', traditionally sung at the end of the day 5.15 mins
Track 6: Kali Dasgupta introduces and performs 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 2.51 mins
Total: 23.58 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF573E0717680 |