Rani Maula

Recording of a performance by the hudke bard Bahadur Dholi, aged ~54, of Camalek (?) village, and two assistants. This is the third of 4 epics recorded on 4 November 1969 at the administrative center of Dandeldhura District, Nepal, by Marc Gaborieau and Mireille Helffer of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Recorded in an enclosed space, on a portable Nagra recorder at 19cm/s, and on cassette. The digitalized version has been mounted from digitalizations of tapes archived at the Centre pour la Recherche en Ethnomusicologie (CREM), Université de Paris-X, Nanterre, France (http://crem.parisson.com). The relevant tracks are catalogued under the name "HISTOIRE DE RANI MAULA" (10 tracks). A fagment lost due to a tape-change has been restored in the present version from a cassette labeled "HUDKE 3", which was recorded at the same time as the tapes. (The cassettes are not currently archived.) The digitalization is composed of 3 regions: #1 00:00:00,000 to 00:23:50,413 length: 00:23:50,413; #2 00:23:50,413 to 00:25:22,632 length: 00:01:32,219; #3 00:25:22,632 to 00:41:34,387 length: 00:16:11,755. The sources of these regions are the following: #1 = CNRSMH_I_1970_041_008_01 0:00 - 23:50,413; #2 = cassette "HUDKE 2" side B 15:11,117 - 16:43,336; #3 = CNRSMH_I_1970_041_009_01 00:01,736 - 16:13,491. The full cassette recording: 8 minutes on cassette "HUDKE 2" side A track 2; 31:18 on cassette "HUDKE 2" side B; 1 minute on cassette "HUDKE 3" side A track 1. ; Discourse type: narrative ; Discourse type: singing