Song About The Harvest

Audio file
Date recorded: August 1, 1964
Contributor(s): Performer: Unidentified men; Performer: Pliev, Grigorii; Recordist: Tskhurbaeva, Kseniya G.; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: choral song, work song
Culture: Caucasus, Ossete
Instruments: voice
Location: Severnaya Osetiya-Alaniya, Russia
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T1705
Track Number: 5
Archive ID: T1705R05
Note: Original note: "recorded by K. G. Tskhurbaeva (f.) – Songs recorded in the city of Ordzhonikidze (North Ossetiya) from Grigorii Pliev (age: 52). Fall song about the harvest – a work song performed in the intervals between work (G. Pliev sings, accom. by male chorus)." Ordzhonikidze is now the city of Vladikavkaz, the capital of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (RNO).
Belongs to: Ossetian 8/64
About the session: These are dubbed recordings given to Alan Lomax by Madam Kseniya G. Tskhurbaeva, collected in Ossetia, U.S.S.R., early 1960s.
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