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[News Script: India]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a cease fire being placed in the Kashmir area.
Date: October 1, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Description of village administration

Description: A description of village administration. Smooth functioning of a village life requires certain people to execute certain roles. The two oldest men in the village, known as singko and tingko, provide the mechanism of the social and religious systems. It was their duty to declare prohibitions, taboos, and so on. Kamu, the village shaman, performs funeral for the dead and attend to sick. He would perform all the rituals in the village. Apai, the village council, comprising old men from every clan … more
Date: October 1, 2016
Duration: 5 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Partner: UNT College of Information

Performance of the song of a babysitter

Description: When evening sets in, but parents have not yet returned from the field and children are crying, a babysitter carries a child on her back and soothe them in the front yard. Gazing to the direction from where the mother will come, the babysitter pacifies the child by singing these songs.
Date: October 1, 2016
Duration: 1 minute 36 seconds
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of traditional folk songs, part 1

Description: This narration is about the importance and role songs played for communication in the traditional life of the Liangmai. Songs were employed in various situations, and they are expressions of different kinds of emotions. Liangmai ancestors used songs to express and convey their feelings and thought. It is a medium to express pleasure and pain, sorrow and joy, spiritual and moral values, and traditional and cultural knowledge. It is a rich form of cultural heritage that contributes towards mainta… more
Date: October 1, 2016
Duration: 12 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of traditional folk songs, part 2

Description: This narration is about the importance and role songs played for communication in the traditional life of the Liangmai. Songs were employed in various situations, and they are expressions of different kinds of emotions. Liangmai ancestors used songs to express and convey their feelings and thought. It is a medium to express pleasure and pain, sorrow and joy, spiritual and moral values, and traditional and cultural knowledge. It is a rich form of cultural heritage that contributes towards mainta… more
Date: October 1, 2016
Duration: 6 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of field weeding songs

Description: This narration is about songs that are sung while working on field. Some of the first songs sang while going to the field and while working on it are recorded here. Such songs are usually short, and their themes are numerous.
Date: October 1, 2016
Duration: 2 minutes 54 seconds
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of a farewell dance to a girl

Description: When a village girl is to get married, her peers and friends will gather at her house and spend a day singing and dancing with her. This narration is about the songs and dances performed during such gatherings.
Date: October 1, 2016
Duration: 3 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of youth's songs

Description: The narration is about the songs of the village youth. Back in the days, on some auspicious occasions the youth will gather at a place, sing songs teasing each other, drink rice beer, and celebrate the whole day. The speaker narrates what kind of songs were sung on this day.
Date: October 1, 2016
Duration: 2 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of village guarding songs

Description: Guarding of village is one of the most important duties of able-bodied young men. While on duty, young men usually sing songs to assure the villagers that they are in good hands.
Date: October 1, 2016
Duration: 2 minutes
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of the gathering of peers

Description: Phiangaobo is the coming together of friends or peers to celebrate after a season of hard agricultural work. This group of friends, usually younger people, would gather at one house where they sing, drink, and eat the whole night.
Date: October 1, 2016
Duration: 2 minutes 41 seconds
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of the songs of the elders

Description: When festive time comes, elderly women will sleep over in their dormitory. They will spend their time together drinking, singing, and celebrating. This narration is about songs sung by old women when they come together to have fun.
Date: October 1, 2016
Duration: 2 minutes 04 seconds
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Partner: UNT College of Information

Description of house visitation

Description: This narration is about the practice of house visitation and songs sung while visiting houses of the village. A group of singers will walk through the village and stop at certain places in intervals and sing songs.
Date: October 1, 2016
Duration: 2 minutes 02 seconds
Creator: Daimai, Kailadbou
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Afghanistan: U.S. Foreign Assistance

Description: The U.S. program of assistance to Afghanistan is intended to stabilize and strengthen the Afghan economic, social, political, and security environment so as to blunt popular support for extremist forces in the region. Since 2001, nearly $38 billion has been appropriated toward this effort. This report provides a "big picture" overview of the U.S. aid program and congressional action. It describes what various aid agencies report they are doing in Afghanistan. It does not address the effectivene… more
Date: October 1, 2009
Creator: Tarnoff, Curt
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: India]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a cease-fire between India and Pakistan.
Date: October 1, 1972
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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