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OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A9C3-E |
| Metadata | ||
| Title: | wake10-song | |
| A Description and Documentation of Avatime | ||
| Contributor (recorder): | Sammy | |
| Coverage: | Ghana | |
| Date: | 2008-09-26 | |
| Description: | This recording was made at a wake keeping the night before the funeral of Geoffrey Adjabeng, a clan leader. The men gathered at one of the meeting places in the village and spent the night giving speeches, singing and drinking. This event was recorded by Sammy. No outside observer was present. This recording includes some songs, conversation and a speech. It has not been transcribed or translated. | |
| The Avatime project aims to describe and document Avatime. The researchers involved in this project are Rebecca Defina and Saskia van Putten. The project included fieldwork in Ghana in 2008 and was completed in 2009. Outcomes of the project are: (1) audio and video recordings of different genres, of which 13,5 hours have been transcribed and annotated, (2) an Avatime-English wordlist, (3) grammar notes and (4) two Master's theses, one on the expression of motion in Avatime (Saskia van Putten) and one on aspect and mood in Avatime (Rebecca Defina). | ||
| On this recording, the people who attend the wake keeping are first singing a comfort song in Ewe. Then there is some drumming and people talk amongst themselves in Avatime. Then they sing songs in Twi. There is some talking in Avatime at the end, but I do not know by who. | ||
| The songs are in Ewe and Twi. The conversation is in Avatime. | ||
| Most people present sing. Some people can be heard having a conversation, I do not know who they are. I also do not know the name of the person who speaks at the end of the recording. Sammy records. | ||
| Sammy was one of our main informants for this project. He was born in Vane and has lived there most of his life. He has also spent some time in Accra. He speaks good English and Ewe. | ||
| The recording was made using a Marantz PMD flash recorder. The recording is mono, 16 bit and 48 kHz. | ||
| This is one of a series of recordings of a wake-keeping the night before a funeral. Here is a list of all recordings made at this event: - wake01-bring-body_WB - wake02-song - wake03-song - wake04-being-late_KAdj - wake05-conv-greetings - wake06-gather_AG - wake07-speeches-misc - wake08-songs-conv - wake09-song - wake10-song - wake11-song - wake12-women-come - wake13-conv-greetings - wake14-thanks - wake15-closing_AG The funeral itself has also been recorded, see 'funeral'. | ||
| Format: | audio/x-wav | |
| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A9C3-E | |
| Publisher: | Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina | |
| Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | ||
| Subject: | Discourse | |
| wake_keeping | ||
| Avatime language | ||
| Akan language | ||
| Twi | ||
| Ewe language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | avn | |
| aka | ||
| ewe | ||
| Type: | audio | |
OLAC Info |
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| Archive: | The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for OLAC format | |
| GetRecord: | Pre-generated XML file | |
OAI Info |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A9C3-E | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
| Citation: | Sammy (recorder). 2008-09-26. Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina. | |
| Terms: | area_Africa country_GH iso639_aka iso639_avn iso639_ewe | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
| Country: | Ghana | |
| Area: | Africa | |