Madam De L?Oiseau

Genres / Genres

story song

Performers / Performers

Unidentified

Pascal, Renold

Prosper, Belomie

John, Herbert

John, Angelo

Hurtault, Raphael

Disposition / Setting

Unspecified

Lieu / Location

La Plaine

Langage / Language

Créole Français de Dominique

Session / Session

La Plaine II 6/62

Date / Date

25/06/1962

Information de référence / Reference information

T1130.0, Track 02 (00:12:26)

Sessions notes / Sessions notes

Story-telling, kont, boat-pulling songs, digging songs, and work songs from the sawpit.

Note d'enregistrement / Recording notes

Narrated story interspersed with singing. The songs are unaccompanied and feature call-and-response between the lead singer and chorus singing in (octave) unison. Intermittent handclapping throughout. Also note call-and-response exchange between the speaker and the audience.

Collection / Collection

Caribbean 1962

General information / Information générale

Ce document provient de la collecte réalisée par Alan Lomax dans les Petites Antilles en 1962. Propriété de l'Association for Cultural Equity. Pour toute autre utilisation, contactez l'Association for Cultural Equity (www.culturalequity.org)

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