ETHNIC FOLKWAYS LIBRARY Album No. FE 4421 © 1951 by Folkways Records & Service Corp. , 43 W . 61st St., NYC, USA

Documentary Recordings frem the Western

Protectorate and Aden

INTRODUCTION AND NOTES ON THE RECORDINGS BY ~~OLF LESLAU

THE MUSIC IN THIS COLLECTION II SELECTED 'ROM AMONG RECORDINGS WHICH I MADE IN lOUTH ARASIA IN 1950. THE BEDOUIN RECORDINGS WERE MADE IN THE CAMP 0' THE LEVIES IN THE WESTERN PROTECTORATE. THE YEMENITE SONGS WERE RECORDED IN THE HASHED CAMP NEAR ADEN, A GATHERING PLACE 'OR YEMENITE ~EWI ENROUTE TO IIRAEL. THE ARAB BEDOUIN RECORDINGS ARE ALL DOCUMENTARY. THEY WERE MADE AT AN AC­TUAL CONVOCATION or TRIBESMEN, AND GIVE A GENERAL PICTURE 0' THE 'ESTIYE NATURE 0' IUCH A GATHERING. THE MUSIC INCLUDED HERE DOEI NOT ATTEMPT TO GIVE A OROIS SECTION or ARABIAN MUSICAL LirE. IT IS o,rERED ONLY TO PROVIDE A GLIMPSE 0' SOUTH ARABIO MUSIC IN ITS IOCIAL lETTING.

AMONG THE BEDOUINS, WHEN TRIBESMEN COME TO A MEETING, OR WHEN THEY ARRIVE AT THEIR DESTINATION ArTER A LONG ~OURNEY, THEY OHANT LINE8 WHICH ARE THE TRADEMARK OF THE TRIBE. WHEN IMPORTANT VISITORI AR­RIVE AT A TRIBAL WEETING, THE HOlTS "RE GUNS IN THE AIR AI A SALUTE. THE HOSTS MAY ALIO WAKE UP VERSES 0' WELCOME, AND THE VI81TORS MAY RESPOND WITH OVER VERIES. IEVERAL · EXAMPLES 0' THIS KIND 0' IINGING ARE INCLUDED HERE.

THE IONG8 or THE YENENITE ~EWI ARE uoeT~Y RELI.IOU8 IN CHARAOTER. THEY ARE lUNG, HOWEVER, ON VARIOUI FEITIVE OCCAaIONa, 8UCH Aa WEDDINGI, CIRCUMClalON OEREMON­lEa, AND ao ON. EXAMPLEI 0' THE ~EWISH YEMENITE aONGa ARE INCLUDED HERE BECAuaE -- LIKE THE I£OOUIN wualc -- THEY ARE LITTLE KNOWN AaPECTa or THE uualOAL LirE or TH II ItART OF THE WQALJ).

SIDE I

GATHERIOO SCNJ OF THE TRIBE OF AWLAQI: THE MEN START SINGING BErORE THEY APPEAR AT THE GATHERING PLACE AND CONTINUE .'TH THE SONG WHEN THEY HAVE ARRI~ED AT THE TRIBAL CONVOCATION. THEY REPEAT THE SAWE WORDS OVER AND OVER: liTHE LIGHTNING HAS APPEARED, AND THE THUNDER 18 STILL STRONGER. BETWEEN YOU AND ME A COUNSEL IS POSIIBLE. DON'T THINK THAT I AM LIKE THIS. I AW A STRONG SEA AND THE 'ISH IS CAUGHT IN THE PLAITED ROPES".

~~ DANCE: THE DANCERS, AWOUNTING TO AI MANY AI TEN, DANCE IN A CIRCLE SWINGING THE I R IWORDS.

GATHER I t(J 500 OF THE TR I BE OF AI'IDALI: " SHOW ME THE GOVERNMENT AND THE HEADS or THE TRIBES. INDEED, WHEN I SEE THEM A NEW THOUGHT COME8 TO NE. THERE 18 NO PEACE BETWEEN THE WOOD AND THE n RE".

WAR SONG: "I DON'T LIKE THE SHUR' (A TYPE or GUN). I TAKE THE WEAPON 0' WAUIER".

LOVE 500: "WHY , OH GARDENER, ARE YOU AWAKE AND NOT AaLEEP? AND YOU PREVENT WE 'ROM COMI NG TO MY BELOVED. II

SOO A80lJT 1HE PAY I NI OF TAXES: "I T la DlrFICULT rOR A TRIBEaYAN TO LET ANOTHER TRIBESMAN PAY HII TAXES. IN THE BLAOK CAVE THE RAIN LEAKI THROUGH".(I.E. THE ItEOPLE WEEP BECAuaE or THla\ THE 'BLACK CAVE' REPREaENTING THE EYES)

DRAtMTlC REPRESEm"ATIOO OF lRlBAL QUAff\EL: THE aOUND OF GUNShOTa 'S HEARD AMIDST THE .ENERAL UltROAR.

SIDE II

FOLK 5OtG: "TWO PIRIO,. CAME 'ROIl AR4lA, AND 'ROM IANDAR AHWER. HOW WOUNDED THEY WERII THEY CAME IROKEN; ONE or THEM, W, HAYE MENDED HII lONE, THE IECOND ONE WE CANNOT. I AM 101 HI TO IRU .. TWO PEOPLE WHO CAN MEND 'RACTUREI-.

DANCE: 'LUTE, DRUM AND YOICE.

WEIDINl SCNl ("'EWI 01 YEMlN): ONE MAN II NGI, ~ADINI 'ROM A lOOK, AI THE OTHER PLAYI, AND TWO OR THREE .... DANCE IN THI MIDDLE.

FE4361 MUSIC OF AFGHANISTAN, recorded in Afghanistan by Radio Kabul: authentic perform­ances by Afghanistan1 folk artists and folk orchestras. With notes, photographs . 1-12" 33-1/3 rpm 10ngp1ay record

FE4469 (P469) KURDISH FOLK SONGS AND DANCES (Iraq), recorded by Ralph S. Solecki. Lawk, Besta, Hairan. Heroic songs, love songs, dance songs, folk dances. Flute , drums. 1-12" 33-1/3 rpm longplay record

FE4470 TAUREG MUSIC of the SOUTHERN SAHARA, recorded by Finola and Geoffrey Holiday: women's songs, love songs, camel song, with Tendi, water drums and Imzhad. 1-12" 33-1/3 rpm 10ngplay record

FE4480 ARABIC AND DRUSE MUSIC, recorded in Palestine by Sam Eskin. From south of Damascus east of the Jordan slopes. Instru­mental and vocal. Selections include: Ud musiC, welcome song, love songs, songs of eulogy, songs of praise and joy, wedding music, bedouin camp songs and mUSiC, double reed music, songs of humor and festival music . Notes in­clude music transcriptions, and texts inArabic and English translation. 1-12" 33-1/3 rpm longplay record

FW6925 (FP925) ARABIC SONGS OF LEBANON an EGYPT. Played and sung by the George Sawaya Trio and Female Chorus. Texts in Arabic and English. Includes: Salam Dance, Nora Ya Nora, Titla Ya Kamar, Halfway You Walk With Me, 0 THE Charm of Your Scarf, He Didn't Tell Me. Lebanese Folk Dances. 1-10" 33-1/3 rpm 10ngplay record

FW8816 SONGS OF LEBANON, SYRIA AND JOR­DAN sung in Arabic by Afif Bulos: Mash'a1 DAN sung in Arabic by Afif Bulos: Mash'al, Bint est-Shalibiyya (The Pretty Lass), The Rozana (Ar-Ro-zana), Yamil ' Abaya (Maiden Beautiful), Tafta Hindi (Indian Taffeta), Jamman Bada Yatathanna (When My Love Languished), Alloma (The Fall of the Sword Is Easier), Ala Dal'ona (The Spoilt One), 'AI Yadi (The valley), Al1-'Imayyim, Ya Ghzayyel (The Ga­zelle): with Arabic and English texts and trans­lations . 1-12" 33-1/3 rpm longplay record

FW8856 FOLK SONGS AND DANCES OF IRAN' includes Varsaghi (folk song from Mazanderan), Damkol (folk song from Kurdestan), Raghse Chupi (folk dance of the Bakhtiari Tribe), Raghse Ghuchani (from Khorasan), Dane Nar (folk song from Khorasan), Dane Boland (folk song from Shiraz, province of Fars), Ay Sar Kotal (folk song of the Mamsami), Pache Leyli (folk song from Gilan) ' Korashim (folk song from GUan). Notes on Persian music by Anthony Byan Shay. 1-12" 33-1/3 rpm longplay record

WEOOIOO SOO ("'EWI or YIMlN)1 MALI YOCAL, OYMBALS.

LOIE SOO (ADEN): MALI YOCAL, 'LUTI AND PLUOKED INSTRUMENT.

LCNE SOO (ADIN): MALE YOCAL, 'LUTE AND PLUOKED INSTRUMINT.

IDITOR - HAROLD OOURLANDIR PRODUOT 10ft D I "'OTOR - 110811 AeoH

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