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Film, Video The Women Who Kept the Songs from India to Israel: The Musical Heritage of Cochin

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Title

  • The Women Who Kept the Songs from India to Israel: The Musical Heritage of Cochin

Summary

  • For centuries Jewish women along India's Malabar Coast filled songbooks with Jewish-themed music sung in Malayam at weddings, community celebrations and rituals. The subsequent influx of Jews from other nations splintered the Jews of Cochin (the present day port city of Kochi, India) and caused many to emigrate, principally to Israel. With them went a rich musical heritage that might have been lost to posterity but for the recent efforts of a team of researchers. In this program efforts to preserve the music of the Cochin region are discussed.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Asian Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2008-04-07.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Performing Arts, Music
  • -  Education

Notes

  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Barbara C. Johnson, Scaria Zacharia, Smita Jassal.
  • -  Recorded on 2008-04-07.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688161

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Asian Division. The Women Who Kept the Songs from India to Israel: The Musical Heritage of Cochin. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-07, 2008. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688161/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Asian Division, S. B. (2008) The Women Who Kept the Songs from India to Israel: The Musical Heritage of Cochin. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-07. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688161/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Asian Division. The Women Who Kept the Songs from India to Israel: The Musical Heritage of Cochin. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-07, 2008. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688161/>.