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35. A Green Bird
… song, as performed in the 2001 recording by two Paradesi women. Gamliel (2005, 225) suggests that it may be a riddle … Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … 35. A Green Bird …
34. Golden Palanquin
… One of the “play songs” performed in a circle dance by women from Kadavumbhagam-Kochi, this song is found in only … Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog … 34. Golden …
33. In the Ship
… Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … 33. In the Ship …
32. Prosper, Prosper (Our Bridegroom, Our Bride)
… is a composite translation of part I, performed by two women from the Paradesi community in Kochi, combined with … The bride and groom were seated on a stage, with Jewish women on opposite sides singing as the guests presented wedding gifts. For this song, the women alternated verses about the bride and the groom, and …
31. The Bridegroom Dressed in Gold
… by his side? Nalla! Traditionally performed at a Jewish women's party the night before a wedding (Daniel and Johnson … of his bride (or, in another version, those of her naughty women companions) apparently are set aside. The couple sit … I first recorded this song in Kochi, and how one of the women singers indignantly rejected their suggestion that the …
30. O Proud Singing Bird!
… part of the same 1981 Hanukkah circle dance performance by women from Kochi-Kadavumbhagam, with an escalated tempo of … Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog … 30. O …
29. The Noble Bridegroom
… Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog … 29. The …
28. The Gold-Clad Bride
… songs traditionally sung the night before a wedding, at a women’s party, where the bride is adorned in her wedding … the version sung on the CD, recorded in 1981 by four women from Kadavumbhagam-Kochi. The final lines in stanza 7 … Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Avigdor (Tibor) Herzog … 28. The …
27. The Elegantly Adorned Bride
… This descriptive tribute is sung to the bride at a special women’s party on the Shabbat preceding her wedding and also at a women’s party the night before the wedding. In elaborate … mostly in notebooks from Kadavumbhagam-Kochi, and the two women who recorded it in 2001 were from that community. … 52 …
26. After the Bath
… always shine! This short song was traditionally chanted by women who accompanied a bride as she was leaving the house … that this song might have been among those performed by women who used to accompany the bride from the mikveh early … community and one from Tekkumbhagam-Kochi. The two Paradesi women who sang it in 1977 in Kochi used the same repetitive …