This playlist is the advanced release of Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala, one of the longstanding projects of the Jewish Music Research Centre. Led with diligence, profound dedication and meticulous scholarship by anthropologist Barbara Johnson, the project relies on fieldwork carried out in India and Israel for over four decades. Johnson’s work, in collaboration with singer and translator Tzipporah Lane, unravels the symbolic and aesthetic layers of the Malayalam language song repertoire, anchored in the life of the Jewish communities of Kerala, on the southwest seacoast of India.
Splendid Singing Birds
Splendid Singing Birds: Jewish Women’s Songs from Kerala
Collected and Translated with Commentary by Barbara C. Johnson
Section I: Songs of Origin and Community Identity
Sarah Cohen, Ruby S. Hallegua
Miriam Daniel, Rahel Nehemia, Toba Sofer, Simcha Yosef
Kerala women, Moshav Nevatim
Hannah (Dolly) Japheth and Ruby Daniel
Yocheved Ben Eliyahu
Venus Lane
Miriam Daniel
Jacobai E. Cohen
Venus Lane
Venus Lane
Leah E. Ben Eliyahu
Hannah (Dolly) Japheth
Ruby Daniel and Rahel Kala
Venus Lane
Section II: Songs for Special Occasions
Sarah Cohen
Miriam Daniel, Rahel Nehemiah, Toba Sofer, Simcha Yosef
Leah Madai
Sarah Cohen
Sarah Cohen, Ruby S. Hallegua
Rahel Kala, Venus Lane, Simcha Yosef
Sarah Cohen, Seema Salem, Ruby S. Hallegua
Sarah Cohen, Seema Salem, Ruby S. Hallegua
Rivka Wadekeotam
Rivka Hai, Molly Pal, Simcha Yosef, Venus Lane
Rahel Kala, Venus Lane
Sarah Cohen, Ruby S. Hallegua.
Miriam Eliyahu
Sarah Cohen, Ruby S. Hallegua
Simcha Yosef, Hannah Yitzhak
Miriam Daniel, Rahel Nehemia, Toba Sofer, Simcha Yosef
Rahel Nehemia, Toba Sofer and others
Rahel Nehemia, Toba Sofer, and others
Rahel Kala, Venus Lane, Hannah Yitzhak, Simcha Yosef
Rahel Kala, Venus Lane
Simcha Yosef, Hannah Yitzhak
Rahel Nehemia, Toba Sofer and others
Rahel Kala, Venus Lane
Simcha Yosef
Hannah (Dolly) Japheth
Sarah Cohen
Sarah Cohen
Sarah Cohen
Section III: Biblical narratives
Nirit Singers
Leah Madai, Rivka Yehoshua
Rahel Nehemiah, Toba Sofer and others
Attachments
The cover page of "Splendid Singing Birds" and the Table of Contents
"Splendid Singing Birds": References quoted
Section I- Songs of origin and community identity: Introduction
Section II- Songs for special accasions: Introduction
Section III- Biblical narratives: Introduction
Section IV- Devotional songs: Introduction
Section V- Zionist songs: Introduction
