Paksia (The Field)

Audio file

Date recorded: August 1, 1964
Contributor(s): Performer: Unidentified women; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: epic song
Culture: Finnic, Mordvin
Instruments: voice
Location: Mordoviya, Russia
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T1703
Track Number: 4
Archive ID: T1703R04
Note: Original note: "Recorded in the settlement "Krasnyi," Mel'tsanskii district, Republic of Mordoviia in 1961. The plot and comments in the book pp. 90, 91." See book "Mordovskie narodnye pesni" (Mordvinian folk songs) by G. I. Suraev-Korolëv and L. S. Kavtas'kin (compilers), Moscow, 1957. The song on p. 90-91 has the same name but a different tune.
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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