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Music and dance of the Baiga people of Madhya Pradesh, India

Title
Music and dance of the Baiga people of Madhya Pradesh, India [videorecording] / filmed by Roderic Knight.
Publication
Tivoli, NY : Original Music Inc., 1992?, 1982.

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Additional Authors
  • Knight, Roderic.
  • DHCA.
Description
1 videocassette (40 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
Summary
Ethnographic documentation of music and dances of the Baiga people of central India. Footage of wedding festivities in two villages is followed by five dances filmed in the village of Silpidi.
Alternative Title
Baiga dances.
Subject
  • Baiga (Indic people)
  • Dance > India > Madhya Pradesh
Genre/Form
  • Dance.
  • Music.
  • Anthropological films and programs.
  • Video.
Note
  • Originally filmed on Super 8 film in 1982; produced as a videotape at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, in 1992.
  • Title on wrapper: Baiga dances.
Event (note)
  • Filmed in the villages of Ramepur and Silpidi, Madhya Pradesh, India, in 1982.
Contents
Village scenes -- Wedding festivities, filmed in Ramepur in March 1982, including a weapon dance by teenaged boys -- Wedding festivities, filmed in Silpidi in May 1982, including a weapon dance by men -- Baiga dances: The karma dance -- The jarpat dance -- The rina dance / performed by young women only -- The seila dance / performed by men only -- the baar dance.
Call Number
*MGZIA 4-2189
OCLC
NYPY96-F241
Title
Music and dance of the Baiga people of Madhya Pradesh, India [videorecording] / filmed by Roderic Knight.
Imprint
Tivoli, NY : Original Music Inc., 1992?, 1982.
Country of Producing Entity
India.
Event
Filmed in the villages of Ramepur and Silpidi, Madhya Pradesh, India, in 1982.
Local Subject
Music -- India -- Madhya Pradesh.
Wedding dances and music.
Weapon dances.
Added Author
Knight, Roderic.
DHCA.
Added Title
Baiga dances.
Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-2189
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