OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A9CA-5

Metadata
Title:		wake03-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. In this recording, the men sing a song in Twi. This recording 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).
		The people at the wake keeping are singing a song in Twi. There is also some conversation in Avatime in between the singing.
		Avatime is the native language of all/most of the people present at this meeting, so their conversations are in Avatime. The song they sing is in Twi. Most of the people present probably do not speak Twi, but at celebrations Twi songs are often sung.
		Many people were present and I cannot identify all the people whose voice can be heard on this recording.
		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, with audio-technica headset microphone PRO8HE. The recording is mono, 16 bit and 48 kHz. The recording was made using a JVC Everio digital video camera. The file is saved in MPEG2 format with 3400 kbps video encoding rate and 256 kbps audio encoding rate. The aspect ratio is 4:3 and the size of the video is 352 x 576. It is recorded in PAL format. Images were taken using a Pentax K10D digital camera with sigma lenss, they are saved in jpeg format, and all settings information is included in the properties of the file.
		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-A9CA-5
Publisher:		Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
		Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:		Singing
		wake_keeping
		Avatime language
		Akan language
		Twi
Subject (ISO639):		avn
		aka
Type:		audio
OLAC Info
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
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A9CA-5
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
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Ghana
Area:		Africa