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19. As You Stand Before Us (Saturday Night Bride Song)
… The introduction to songs 18–20 is available here . 19a. Sarah Cohen, Seema … 141). … 52 … 7 … 44233 … Kochi … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … …
18. Our Food
… The introduction to songs 18–20 is available here . 18a. Rahel Kala, Venus Lane, … Food” is one of the most widely distributed Kerala Jewish songs, found in at least eighteen notebooks from all the … Singing Birds: Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … 18. …
17. Blessing Song
… use, it has been one of the most enigmatic of all the songs. Though many women were familiar with it, none claimed … then available to him. In his analysis it is “a genuine folk song,” rephrased and written down by different … Singing Birds: Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … …
16. Song of the Ten Commandments
… and the “Ayyumma” refrain) are the most similar in their folk style. When the Parur version was recorded in 1981 by … she had forgotten parts of the song. In contrast to the two folk-style versions, the Paradesi song (16c) was sung by … Taoz/ Moshav Aviezer/ Kochi … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … …
15. Sefer Torah Dedication Song
… … 52 … 7 … 44220 … Jerusalem … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … 15. Sefer …
14. The Paliat Achan Song
… its melody was the same as that of a non-Jewish Malayalam folk song titled “In Calicut a Tarakan [Merchant] Came,” describing both as children’s play-songs. For a clearer rendition of the Paliat Achan song, … Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … …
13. Manacheri Women! Mattancherry Women!
… of five or six whiskers of prawn!—těy těy This amusing folk song is included not only as a marker of Kochi identity … an inherently non-Jewish song. Remembered as one of many songs heard from itinerant non-Jewish street-singers in … “těy těy” are characteristic line-endings in similar Kerala folk songs. Because there is no written version of this song …
12. North Side, South Side (A Visit from the Raja)
… are a characteristic opening for certain Mappilla Muslim songs from northern Kerala. Zacharia (2005, 199) discusses … “A Green Bird ”), perhaps combined because the two short songs share the same simple melody. They were initially … Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … …
11. Famous Kochi Harbor
… [1] This is one of several references in the songs to the biblical David (rather than “ben David”—a … … Kibbutz Neot Mordecai, Israel … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … …
10. Tekkumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… out loudly with sounds of kurava, Lifting their voices in songs of joyous praise. (x2) The assembly elders were … food, drink, fireworks, the music of drumming and women’s songs, and the sound of joyous kuruva ululation. Then … Birds: Songs of Origin and Community Identity … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … …