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The Social Life of Transcriptions: Interactions around Women’s Songs in Kangra

Author(s) -

Kirin Narayan

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

oral tradition

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1542-4308

pISSN - 0883-5365

DOI - 10.1353/ort.2015.0001

Subject(s) - transcription (linguistics) , tone (literature) , linguistics , task (project management) , computer science , engineering , philosophy , systems engineering

Moving oral traditions into the domain of the printed word involves a first step of transcription.1 Anyone who has transcribed recordings from fieldwork will recollect the grinding effort demanded by this task. One listens again and again: striving to catch the meaning and tone of words as they gallop past, struggling to coax a herd of words into orderly lines, straining to remain attentive to other sounds--comments, interjections, interruptions, parallel performances--that are simultaneously shaping a text.

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