J'ai Fait La Route Par Bois

Genres / Genres

ballad, dance song

Performers / Performers

Unidentified

Gustave, Richard

Disposition / Setting

Oleon (Aux Lyons)

Lieu / Location

Dennery

Langage / Language

Créole Français de Sainte-Lucie

Session / Session

Dennery 7/62

Date / Date

21/07/1962

Information de référence / Reference information

T1181.0, Track 01 (00:02:12)

Sessions notes / Sessions notes

This session features different groups of singers performing drinking songs (chanté abwè), game songs, songs and music for dancing, and work songs. Some of the game songs can be heard on Caribbean Voyage: Brown Girl in the Ring (Rounder CD 1716).

Note d'enregistrement / Recording notes

This song begins as a ballad sung solo, a cappella. However, toward the end of the recording (and after some discussion), it segues into a dance rhythm where the audience participates with handclapping and foot stomping.

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)