The Sea

Audio file

Date recorded: August 1, 1964
Contributor(s): Performer: Unidentified women; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: ballad, choral song
Culture: Finnic, Mordvin
Instruments: voice
Location: Mordoviya, Russia
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T1702
Track Number: 6
Archive ID: T1702R06
Note: Same choir and same leader as T1703 R04 and T1703 R05. Original note: "Recorded in 1961. Performed by the choir of the settlement "Krasnyi," Mel'tsanskii district, Republic of Mordoviia. The song tells about the difficulties of service in Tzarist army."
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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