Birthday party celebrations with drumming and singing

• Other Authors: Ama, Irina Popova, Dusia, Lidiia Yapkingina, Valentina Dedyk, Alexander King
• Format: Audio
• Language: Russian; English
• Published: Alexander King 2013
• Subjects: Celebration; Koryak language; Russian language; English language; Lidia; Pakhachi; Palana; Srednie; Kamchatka; Koryak; Tundra
• Online Access: https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1313576%23

Birthday party celebrations with drumming and singing after dinner. Three grannies chatting in Koryak with middle-aged people also participating in Koryak and talking in Russian. Igor, a Russian man and King (depositor) also present, along with infant and 4-year-old boy (noisy). The grannies are eating wapaq. Start - Lidia is singing (?not sure). 03:45 - Ira Popova is playing and singing. 10:45 – Amak. 13:15 – Ira. 15:40 – Amak (?). 19:00 – Shura. 24:19 - Ira singing, 29:10 - Dusia singing and dancing. 36:30 – Amak. Left and right channels were swapped from original recording because I had Tascam set incorrectly with mics spread wide. This file has the correct L-R sound space. Profession: nurse. Sister is Vera Kalpachkova. She organised dancing in Yaranga video session in 1998. Son is Stasik, who lives with Ama and Maksim Plepa. Works in Institute for Advanced Teacher Training, Palana. She was born in a yaranga on the tundra. Learned Russian as 4th language starting in grad school and extensive residence in Kamchatka (1995 5mos, 1997-98 17 months). Had very good conversational skills by summer 1997 and fluent by early 1998, at least in listening. Has thick American accent. Knows a few words of Koryak for social situation.