Hariyali Teej Festival Song Recording by Women

A 19.6 MB WAV audio file containing a recording of women singing a traditional 'geet' (song/ballad) during the Hariyali Teej festival. The recording, made by researcher Aabha Chhajer, was uploaded to figshare in April 2026 and documents a cultural practice expressing connections to local ecology and deities.

Use Cases

• Analyze vocal patterns and melodic structure of the 'geet' for ethnomusicological classification.
• Study lyrical content for themes related to local environment, ecology, and deities mentioned in the description.
• Use as a sample for audio feature extraction (e.g., MFCCs) to train models for identifying regional folk singing styles.
• Compare this ritual performance audio with other festival recordings to study variations in cultural expression.

Strengths

• High-fidelity audio data in uncompressed WAV format (19.6 MB).
• Clearly documented cultural context and purpose in the description.
• Released under a clear, open license (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Limitations

• Single audio file provides a very small sample size (n=1 recording) for analysis.
• No accompanying metadata (e.g., singer demographics, precise location, transcription) limits contextual analysis.
• The 19.6 MB scale is small, offering limited data for training machine learning models.

Provenance

Source

Aabha Chhajer via figshare.

Collection Method

Field audio recording of a live cultural performance.

Time Range

Recording date unknown; uploaded April 2026.

Freshness

Record uploaded in April 2026.

Geography

Location unknown; associated with the Hariyali Teej festival, likely in Northern India.