- Additional Authors
- Najan, Nala, 1932-2002
- Found In
- Srimathi Gina papers, 1935-1980
- Description
- Two audio streaming files (approximately one hour and six minutes): digital, stereo
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 33 minutes). Srimathi Gina speaks with Nala Najan about her study of Manipuri dance with Ritha Chatterjee [Ritha Devi] in Bombay [now Mumbai] including her impressions of Chatterjee and her apartment; her physical appearance; Chatterjee as a teacher; Chatterjee's husband and mother-in-law including Chatterjee's contentious relationship with them; the mother-in-law's death and funeral; Gina's shock at Chatterjee's and her husband's lack of respect for his mother's ashes; reasons Chatterjee disliked her mother-in-law; Gina's impressions of Bombay including why she preferred living in Bombay to south India; the Jewish refugee community in Bombay.
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 33 minutes). Introductory remarks by Nala Najan; Srimathi Gina speaks about attending her first Kathakali performance, with Ragani Devi, at a wedding in Malabar, including the arduous walk through rice paddies to reach the site; the actors including the application of their make-up and the donning of their costumes; the ceremony of putting on the headdress, by an actor's guru and why the performers are called actors; more on the application of the make-up; the performance including the opening dance, the audience, and the ending ceremony [short gap at approximately 27:00]; Najan tells Gina an anecdote about his experience with a yogi while studying dance in rural India [ends abruptly].
- Alternative Title
- Srimathi Gina papers, 1935-1980 Audio
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Srimathi Gina [stage name of Gina Blau] conducted by Nala Najan, in England, in two sessions, for use in a BBC broadcast. The date is not specified, but the interview may have been recorded in the 1960s.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is good.
- Access (note)
- Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Funding (note)
- The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Separated from the Srimathi Gina papers, 1935-1980 (S) *MGZMD 307
- OCLC
- 926717535
- Author
Gina, Srimathi, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Srimathi Gina
- Production
[196u?]
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Restricted Access
Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Event
Recorded by Naja Nalan for a BBC broadcast 196-? England
- Funding
The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Original Version
Original format: one sound reel (approximately one hour and six minutes); 7"; acetate; half-track; 7.5 ips; transferred to wav file and streaming file (myd_mgzto73042_v01f01_sc and myd_mgzto73042_v01f02_sc) formats in 2015.
- Linking Entry
Separated from the Srimathi Gina papers, 1935-1980 (S) *MGZMD 307
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Najan, Nala, 1932-2002, interviewer.
- Added Title
Srimathi Gina papers, 1935-1980 Audio
- Found In:
Srimathi Gina papers, 1935-1980