Sung Poetry Recordings from Tajik Badakhshan in 1998

Encompassing audio recordings of sung poetry from the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan's Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region, collected during fieldwork in 1998. The recordings were made by Jan van Belle and are part of a larger collection spanning multiple years.

Use Cases

• Analyze the musical and poetic structures of Pamiri sung poetry from the 1998 fieldwork recordings.
• Conduct comparative linguistic or ethnomusicological studies using the 1998 recordings as a temporal data point.
• Study the cultural heritage of Tajik Badakhshan through the specific audio recordings documented in this collection.

Strengths

• Field recordings provide primary source material from a specific cultural region.
• Data is part of a multi-year collection, with separate datasets for 1992 and 1993 recordings.
• Recordings were made by a named individual, Jan van Belle, providing traceable provenance.

Limitations

• The specific number of audio files, their duration, and technical specifications are unknown.
• No columnar or structured metadata (e.g., performer, song title, language) is described for analysis.
• The dataset represents a single year (1998) from the larger fieldwork project.

Provenance

Source

DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities Collection

Collection Method

Field recordings made during ethnographic fieldwork.

Time Range

1998

Freshness

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Geography

Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (Pamir Mountains), Tajikistan