| Description | Assembly of actuality recordings with Kali Dasgupta and music clips from Indian folk songs from North and East Bengal performed by Kali Dasgupta and recorded for 'Snowballs in Calcutta'.
Track 1: Kali Dasgupta discusses the All India Peasants Conference in 1943 in Bengal at which peasant singers who were members of the Sufi sect performed protest songs about the situation at the time, including the famine in Bengal 4.40 mins
Track 2: Kali Dasgupta performs a song 5.03 mins
Track 3: Kali Dasgupta discusses the dowry system in India, edited together with his introduction to a song about a buffalo herder and the performance of this song and with his discussion and performance of an anti-war song expressing the views of the wives of men who have joined the British army during the First World War 7.14 mins
Track 4: Kali Dasgupta introduces and performs a peasant song from Bihar, edited together with his discussion of the socio-economic themes in many folk songs and a performance of a song 4.23 mins
Track 5: Kali Dasgupta discusses the continued existence of the society that produced traditional Indian folk songs, edited together with a satirical song composed in 1947 when Mountbatten was viceroy of India 3.45 mins
Track 6: Kali Dasgupta continues to discuss the satirical song about Mountbatten, edited together with a performance of a song 8.33 mins
Total: 33.48 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF534B0270580 |