Choeur de femmes et danse, kanjet

Vocal and instrumental music collected in Kalimantan Timur in 1977 by N. Revel, J. Maceda and I Made Bandem. Among the Kenyah, in general, dances are performed by groups belonging to the same class and the same sexes. Dances for men and women are distinct. They are never mixed. But in secular dances. The row wraps itself into a two-line circle and then unrolls.
Edited Title
id Paduan suara dan tarian wanita, kanjet
Archivist's Original Title
fr Choeur de femmes et danse, kanjet
en Women's chorus and dance, kanjet
Original description
en Vocal and instrumental music collected in Kalimantan Timur in 1977 by N. Revel, J. Maceda and I Made Bandem. Among the Kenyah, in general, dances are performed by groups belonging to the same class and the same sexes.
Dances for men and women are distinct. They are never mixed. But in secular dances.
The row wraps itself into a two-line circle and then unrolls.
Time duration
en 0:05:57
Recording date of the original material
en 1977-04
Acquisition Date
en 2010
Population
en Kenyah
Place of the cultural origin
Country Name
Recording place
en Kalimantan Timur, Kenyah, Tandjung Manis
Resource Language
en Kenyah
Archivist Category
en Music (Vocal)
Recording context
en Field recording
Instrument, Original Archivist Data
en Sung voice: female solo and female chorus; Foot stamping
Name of original Collection
en Kalimantan Timur (Bornéo Est) ; Revel, N. 1977.
External reference
en 1979, REVEL, MACEDA & I Made Bandem, The Music of the Kenyah and the Modang, Kalimantan Timur, 33RPM, Unesco, University of the Philippines, Quezon City ; - 1982, Revel-Macdonald, Nicole‘Masks in Kalimantan Timur’, Mask II, The World of Music, Berlin. International Institute for Comparative Music Studies and Documentation, pp. 52-57. - 1988, Revel-Macdonald, Nicole‘The Dayaks : On the Ancestors, the Dead and the Living’, Islands and Ancestors, J.P. Barbier and D. Newton (eds), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York, pp. 66-85 and pp. 240-257.
History of ownership
en Tapes digitized and archived at CREM (CNRS, Nanterre) by Nicole Revel in 2010.
Copyright Information
en CC BY-NC-ND
Physical format
en Magnetic tape
Preservation State of Physical Object
en Copy
Original item number
en CNRSMH_I_2010_006_005_06
SEAH Identifier
en SEAH_CNRSMH_I_2010_006_005_06