Malanjya Abramovna

Audio file

Date recorded: August 1, 1964
Contributor(s): Performer: Unidentified women; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: ballad, lyric song, topical song
Culture: Finnic, Mordvin
Instruments: voice
Location: Mordoviya, Russia
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T1703
Track Number: 5
Archive ID: T1703R05
Note: Original note: "Recorded in 1961 in the settlement "Krasnyi," Mel'tsanskii district, Republic of Mordoviia'. Malanjya stole a coachman's bell to sell it and thus help her father to pay enormous tzarist taxes. People both blame and justify her for her behaviour."
Transcript:
Belongs to: Mordva 8/64
About the session: These are dubbed recordings collected and given to Alan Lomax by Mr. Georgii Ivanovich Suraev-Korolev.
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