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Caribbean revels : Haitian rara and Dominican gaga.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 30565
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Language:
- Creoles and Pidgins, French-based (Other)
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk music--Haiti.
- Folk music.
- Folk songs, Creole.
- Haiti.
- Folk music--Dominican Republic.
- Folk songs, Creole--Haiti.
- Folk songs, Creole--Dominican Republic.
- Dominican Republic.
- Ethnic music recordings--Haiti.
- Ethnic music recordings--Dominican Republic.
- Ethnic music recordings, Creole--Haiti.
- Ethnic music recordings, Creole--Dominican Republic.
- Local Subjects:
- Ethnic music recordings--Haiti.
- Ethnic music recordings--Dominican Republic.
- Ethnic music recordings, Creole--Haiti.
- Ethnic music recordings, Creole--Dominican Republic.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Folk music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Haitian rara and Dominican gaga.
- Dominican gaga.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington DC : Smithsonian/Folkways, [1991]
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- 1.4 m/s
- digital recording
- Participant:
- Performed by native musicians.
- Notes:
- Vocal and instrumental music, in part associated with voodoo practices; song texts principally obscene or political.
- The vocal works sung in Creole.
- Recorded 1976-1978 in Haiti and the Dominican Republic by Verna Gillis with the assistance of Ramon Perez.
- Originally issued in 1978 as Folkways 4531.
- Compact disc.
- Notes by Verna Gillis, Gage Averill and Michel Ralph Trouillot, bibliography, discography, videography, and texts of the vocal works in the original Creole with English translations ([4] p. : 23 cm., folded) inserted in container.
- "Since most Rara [and Gaga] songs do not have titles, the tracks are either named after the groups recorded on them or after the place in which they were recorded" -- Program notes.
- OCLC:
- 31798275
- Publisher Number:
- SF 40402 Smithsonian/Folkways
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