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The Jalakeli Project: Women's Oral Histories: Mohinisana "The Whistler" Ningthemcha on Family, Marriage and Performance

Description: Mohinisana Ningthemcha Elangbam Ongbi, renowned in her day as "The Whistler" talks about social values and their impact on marriage and performance. On growing up in a traditional elite family, restrictions on socialising, her arranged marriage, rules of exogamy, worship, and interaction with the royal court.
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Date: October 3, 2017
Duration: 25 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Roy, L. Somi
Partner: UNT College of Information

The Jalakeli Project: Women's Oral Histories: On the House of Ngangbam

Description: Sundari Ngangbam, a member of the Choir of the Royal Daughters, reminisces about her father, singer Ngangbam Nimai, Manipur's first recording artist, and her family, the House of Ngangbam to which Maharani Dhanamanjuri Devi belonged.
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Date: October 4, 2017
Duration: 46 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Roy, L. Somi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Cithare

Description: Recording of Claude Jordan's Cithare. Work made up of 3 movements, whose basic material is fragments, samples taken from a traditional instrument frequently used in German-speaking Switzerland: the "Hackbret" or "Citre". Much of the sound processing has been done around transposition and reverse playback bringing an unusually resonant and percussive aspect of the original instrument.
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Date: 1989
Duration: 8 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: Jordan, Claude, 1954-
Partner: UNT Music Library

The curse of border vacuums

Description: Recording of The curse of border vacuums. This work uses MAX which send information to MIDI internally to sample cell and externally to a sound processor (SPX-90), which effects incoming FM radio stations.
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Date: 1995
Duration: 8 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Peebles, Sarah
Partner: UNT Music Library

Leather coat with fur details

Description: A) Coat of grey leather, white fox fur, and purple heavy silk; single breasted; 3 large self-covered buttons center front; bound button holes; hip length; fur trimmed collar and cuffs; three quarter length sleeves; lined in heavy purple silk Retailer Label: Stripling's / Fort Worth B) Belt of grey leather.
Date: 1970
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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