wake08-songs-conv

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  • Name : wake08-songs-conv
  • Title : wake08-songs-conv
  • Date : 2008-09-26
  • descriptions
    • Description : This recording was made at a wake keeping the night before the funeral of Geoffrey Adjabeng, a clan leader. The men gathered at one of the meeting places in the village and spent the night giving speeches, singing and drinking. This event was recorded by Sammy. No outside observer was present. In this recording some songs are sung and some conversation takes place. It has not been transcribed or translated.
  • Location
    • Continent : Africa
    • Country : Ghana
    • Region :
    • Address : meeting place, Vane
  • Project
    • Name : Avatime
    • Title : A Description and Documentation of Avatime
    • Id :
    • Contact
      • Name : Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
      • Address : MPI for Psycholinguistics, P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands
      • Email : saskia.vanputten@mpi.nl
      • Organisation : Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
    • descriptions
      • Description : The Avatime project aims to describe and document Avatime. The researchers involved in this project are Rebecca Defina and Saskia van Putten. The project included fieldwork in Ghana in 2008 and was completed in 2009. Outcomes of the project are: (1) audio and video recordings of different genres, of which 13,5 hours have been transcribed and annotated, (2) an Avatime-English wordlist, (3) grammar notes and (4) two Master's theses, one on the expression of motion in Avatime (Saskia van Putten) and one on aspect and mood in Avatime (Rebecca Defina).
  • Content
    • Genre : Discourse
    • SubGenre : Conversation
    • Task : Unspecified
    • Modalities : speech
    • Subject : wake_keeping
    • CommunicationContext
      • Interactivity : interactive
      • PlanningType : spontaneous
      • Involvement : no-observer
      • SocialContext : Unspecified
      • EventStructure : Conversation
      • Channel : Unspecified
    • Content_Languages
      • descriptions
        • Description : The songs are sung in Ewe. Conversation takes place in Avatime.
      • Content_Language
        • Id : ISO639-3:ewe
        • Name : Ewe
        • Dominant : Unspecified
        • SourceLanguage : Unspecified
        • TargetLanguage : Unspecified
        • descriptions
          • Description : Ewe is a Kwa (Niger-Congo) language spoken in Ghana and Togo. It is the dominant language of the Volta Region of Ghana.
      • Content_Language
        • Id : ISO639-3:avn
        • Name : Avatime
        • Dominant : true
        • SourceLanguage : Unspecified
        • TargetLanguage : Unspecified
        • descriptions
          • Description : Avatime (also called Siyase or Sideme) is one of a group of languages called Togo Remnant, Central Togo or preferably Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM). These languages are usually classified as Kwa, Niger-Congo. Avatime is most closely related to Tafi and Nyangbo. Avatime is spoken in eight villages in the Volta Region of Ghana by approximately 10,000 speakers. The language is bordered to the west by Tafi and Nyangbo, to the north by Logba and to the east and south by Ewe. Ewe is the dominant language in the region. Most Avatime speakers also speak Ewe and those who have been to school speak English too. Ewe is mainly used in the first years of primary school, in church and to a certain extent on the market. English is used in the higher years of school. In events where important non-Avatimes are present, Ewe and English are used. Radio and television programmes are usually in English or Akan, and sometimes in Ewe. Avatime is only spoken in domestic and traditional domains of use. There is not yet a standard orthography for Avatime.
    • descriptions
      • Description : On this recording, the people who attend the wake keeping first sing a comfort song in Ewe. Then there is some drumming and the people talk a bit amongst themselves in Avatime. Then they sing the Ewe song again.
  • Actors
    • descriptions
      • Description : Sammy records. Several people sing and converse.
    • Actor
      • Role : Recorder
      • Name : Sammy
      • FullName : Sammy Kwami Oboni
      • Code : SO
      • FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
      • EthnicGroup :
      • BirthDate : Unspecified
      • Sex : Male
      • Education : Completed some post-secondary schooling
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • ExactAge
          • years : 31
      • Contact
        • Name : Sammy Kwami Oboni
        • Address : The big green house, Vane, Ghana
      • descriptions
        • Description : Sammy was one of our main informants for this project. He was born in Vane and has lived there most of his life. He has also spent some time in Accra. He speaks good English and Ewe.
      • Actor_Languages
        • descriptions
          • Description : Sammy is a native speaker of Avatime (Vane dialect, though he has some knowledge of other dialects as well). He speaks good English and Ewe.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:avn
          • Name : Avatime
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : true
          • descriptions
            • Description : Avatime (also called Siyase or Sideme) is one of a group of languages called Togo Remnant, Central Togo or preferably Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM). These languages are usually classified as Kwa, Niger-Congo. Avatime is most closely related to Tafi and Nyangbo. Avatime is spoken in eight villages in the Volta Region of Ghana by approximately 10,000 speakers. The language is bordered to the west by Tafi and Nyangbo, to the north by Logba and to the east and south by Ewe. Ewe is the dominant language in the region. Most Avatime speakers also speak Ewe and those who have been to school speak English too. Ewe is mainly used in the first years of primary school, in church and to a certain extent on the market. English is used in the higher years of school. In events where important non-Avatimes are present, Ewe and English are used. Radio and television programmes are usually in English or Akan, and sometimes in Ewe. Avatime is only spoken in domestic and traditional domains of use. There is not yet a standard orthography for Avatime.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:eng
          • Name : English
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
          • descriptions
            • Description : English is a Germanic (Indoeuropean) language spoken by many people throughout the world. It is the national language of Ghana.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:ewe
          • Name : Ewe
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
          • descriptions
            • Description : Ewe is a Kwa (Niger-Congo) language spoken in Ghana and Togo. It is the dominant language of the Volta Region of Ghana.
  • Resources
    • MediaFile
      • Type : audio
      • Format : audio/x-wav
      • Size : 3352KB
      • Quality : Unspecified
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      • TimePosition
        • Start : Unspecified
        • End : Unspecified
      • Access
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        • Date : Unspecified
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      • descriptions
        • Description : The recording was made using a Marantz PMD flash recorder. The recording is mono, 16 bit and 48 kHz.
    • Anonyms
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  • References
    • descriptions
      • Description : This is one of a series of recordings of a wake-keeping the night before a funeral. Here is a list of all recordings made at this event: - wake01-bring-body_WB - wake02-song - wake03-song - wake04-being-late_KAdj - wake05-conv-greetings - wake06-gather_AG - wake07-speeches-misc - wake08-songs-conv - wake09-song - wake10-song - wake11-song - wake12-women-come - wake13-conv-greetings - wake14-thanks - wake15-closing_AG The funeral itself has also been recorded, see 'funeral'.