MaryAwowAdyejak_songAnnounceTheMarriage

The recording at the center of this item is a Shilluk song. In this song, the composer is challenging a young man who wanted to marry a girl, but he could not do so because he had no cows at that time. So, the composer puts the words into the girl's mouth saying, "My brother, announce the marriage. I would serve you". And she added that her parents would surely accept the request from him to marry their daughter. Then the composer decided to marry that girl, and she accepted him. This item consists of a recorded Shilluk song (wav file), accompanied with annotation (in Praat TextGrid) and associated information: metadata, permissions and speaker questionnaire. The associated information is also summarized, in a spreadsheet. The TextGrid annotation includes Shilluk orthography, translation, and comments.