Mundu honetan ni bizitzen naiz

Title: Mundu honetan ni bizitzen naiz
Date recorded: August 19, 1952
Contributor(s): Performer: Olaizola, Manuel (Uztapide); Performer: Iturain, Krisostomo; Performer: Eskudero, Joxe Migel; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Genre: bertso, song duel
Instruments: voice
Culture: Basque, Spanish
Language: Basque, Guipuzcoan

Subject(s):

Note: This is a bertsolari song in zortziko handia meter, about preserving the Basque heritage and Alan Lomax's visit.

Location: Ergoien-Oiartzun, Guipuzcoa, País Vasco, Spain

Archive ID: T638R05

Original format: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T638
Track: 5

Part of: Ergoien-Oiartzun 8/52

About the session: Three famous bertsolari—song improvisers—are heard here: Manuel Olaizola “Uztapide” (b. Zestoa, 1909; d. Oiartzun, 1983); Krisostomo Iturain de "Bidealde" Uztapide’s father-in-law; and Joxe Migel Eskudero. Bertoslari song duels involve improvised songs composed according to strict poetic rules.

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