LL-L "Songs" 2008.06.04 (05) [E]

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Songs

Talking about songs ...

There is a somewhat convenient web resource for locating video recordings of
various types of world music, from authentic folk music via kitchen table
karaoke, home-made spoof and glitzy pop to classical music. Some of it is
great, some of it is embarrassing, especially the lip-synchers that merely
want their mugs to be seen worldwide.

So here it is:
http://www.bharatwisdom.com/

It's a nice service (apparently from India or by someone from India in the
UK) and includes music of lesser-encountered or lesser-mentioned ethnic
groups and their languages. It offers hours of entertainment and discovery.
This includes music of our focus area. I will list the URLs of the relevant
pages below.

However, before that a word of warning is in order.  The site is pretty
messy, carelessly thrown together. On Lowlands-specific and other pages
there are tons of miscategorized links. For instance, under "Georgian"
(Kartvelian) you will find links to several songs about the US state of
Georgia, under "Frisian" you will find lots and lots of videos about Frisian
horses, and "Saxon" has nothing to do with Low Saxon or even the "fake
Saxons" of the German state of Saxony. Most of the songs listed under
"English" are not English at all but ended up in this category because they
have the word "English" in the text somewhere, which is also how the Frisian
horses ended up under songs. Under "Pitcairn" there is not a single link to
Pitcairn or Norfolk songs. This is an example of what happens when you rely
on a poor script to capture links automatically. Furthermore, there is at
least one mislabeled link: the second "Hawaiian" label leads to "Hebrew" or
"Israeli". So I give the site a D for thoroughness of execution, a B for
effort, and an A for intention.

Until these pages have been cleaned up (and I am blind-copying the owner
here) you will need to navigate by such faulty links to get to the real
stuff. Nevertheless, it's an effort and a start.

Links to the individual pages are found in the box on the top left. Here are
the Lowlands-related pages:

Afrikaans:
http://www.bharatwisdom.com/AfrikaansSongs/tabid/485/Default.aspx?page=1

Dutch:
http://www.bharatwisdom.com/DutchSongs/tabid/512/Default.aspx?page=1

English:
http://www.bharatwisdom.com/EnglishSongs/tabid/514/Default.aspx?page=1

"Flemish" (i.e., anything Dutch in Belgium):
http://www.bharatwisdom.com/FlemishSongs/tabid/519/Default.aspx?page=1

Frisian:
http://www.bharatwisdom.com/FrisianSongs/tabid/521/Default.aspx?page=1

"Pidgin" (includes Tok Pisin and other English-based creoles):
http://www.bharatwisdom.com/PidginSongs/tabid/566/Default.aspx?page=1

"Scots" (including any Scottish song in languages other than Scots):
http://www.bharatwisdom.com/ScotsSongs/tabid/577/Default.aspx?page=1

Not represented are songs in Low Saxon ("Low German") and Limburgish, to
speak for our focus area alone.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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