Why Music? - Singing Planet
Mary Ann Kennedy explores Song: common to every society on the planet, heard at home and at work from humankind's earliest days. Guests include singer and song collector Sam Lee plus journalist Simon Broughton, unravelling the common threads that bind this fundamental human activity.
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Exploring what makes music a vital part of being human.
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Thiso
Performer: The Phylonasa Bamboo Band.- Wantok Vol. 1 - Sounds of Australasia & Melanesia.
- Wantok Music.
- W0007.
- 1.
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I wish, I wish
Performer: Edward McDonagh.- Private recording.
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Boatman's song from Mali
- Private recording.
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Clover Hacking Song
Performer: Jasper Smith.- Private recording.
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Romanian wedding song
- Private recording.
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Joc Batrinesc
- La Vraie Tradition de Transylvanie.
- Ocora / Harmonia Mundi.
- HM 83.
- 1.
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Mariead nan Cuiread
Performer: Margaret Callan.- Bho Dhòrn Gu Dòrn.
- Macmeanmna.
- SKYECD 32.
- 11.
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Lullaby - Nyuba nunuli (Song of the Snake Mother)
- Polyphonies of the Solomon Islands.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- LDX 274 663 / CM 251.
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Funeral song (Zär of Latali village)
- Georgia: Polyphony of Svaneti.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- LDC 274990 / HM 91.
- 18.
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Old Alabama
Performer: B.B..- Murderers' ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ.
- Sequel Records.
- NEX CD 121.
- 4.
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Cow Song
Performer: Mary Ann Kennedy.- ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Recording.
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Sipotul / Zdîrnaita In Doi / Rogojana
Performer: Ensemble Tulnicarese.- Various ‎– Romania: Wild Sounds From Transylvania, Wallachia & Moldavia.
- World Network & WDR.
- 28.300.
- 17.
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Totoraha (Culture)
Performer: Narasirato.- Solomon Islands - Narasirato Pan Pipers.
- ARC Music.
- EUCD 2147.
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