Tools
Haiti, 1939-1940
- Author/Composer,etc
- Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996.
- Title
- [Haiti, 1939-1940] [sound recording] / collected by Harold Courlander.
- Format
- Musical Recording
- Physical description
- 111 sound discs : analog, 78 rpm, mono. ; 12 in. + documentation
- Performer
- Performed by various native musicians.
- Recording info
- Recorded by Courlander at various locations in Haiti from 1939-1940.
- Notes
- "Folk songs of Haiti." Aluminum discs, reproduce from inside outward; 1st generation copies of the original acetate discs. Accompanied by a complete catalog of the collection and song texts in Haitian Creole with English translations. Selected song transcriptions included in Courlander's "The Drum and the Hoe" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980). Deposited at the Archives of Traditional Music by Courlander and Northwestern University under Option 3.
- Local note
- 12-5044--5154; 12-327--332 (test pressings); EC 9396--9427 (1st gen.); EC 8536--8570 (old ATLs)
- Partial contents
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- Vodoun songs
- Yenvalo dance songs
- Loa songs
- Kitta Mouillé and Chêche songs
- Petro ritual songs
- Juba dance songs
- Carnival songs
- Ibo dance songs
- Bumba songs
- Damballa songs
- Children's game songs
- Parable
- Songs for wakes
- Secret society songs
- Pinyique dance songs
- Congo songs
- Cuban cane-cutter's songs
- Limba, carabienne, mascort, salongo and kanga drum rhythms
- Mascaron (Carnival) songs
- Tambour maringuin with songs
- Vaccines (bamboo trumpets)
- "Political" songs
- Meringues
- Haitian dance orchestra
- Zépaule songs
- Baboule songs
- Calinda songs
- Rada songs
- Dahomé songs
- Songs with malimba
- Moundongue songs
- Bumba songs
- Tikanbo music
- Calebasse songs
- Marimba music
- Grinding songs
- Woodcutter's songs
- Fisherman's songs
- Histoire.
- Subject
- Rites and ceremonies--Haiti. Political ballads and songs--Haiti. Folk dance music--Haiti. Folk music--Haiti. Folk songs, Creole--Haiti. Carnival songs--Haiti. Vodou--Haiti. Work songs--Haiti. Merengues. Funeral music--Haiti. Cults--Haiti. Singing games--Haiti. Children's songs--Haiti. Cults--Haiti. Drum--Haiti.
- Local subject
- Calendas. SV03.
- Related name
- Indiana University, Bloomington. Archives of Traditional Music.