Manze Ti Jeanne

Genres / Genres

improvisation typique

Performers / Performers

Florius, Malcousu

Grivalliers, Raoul

Grivalliers, Casimir

Gourpil, Augustin

Unidentified

Nom du groupe / Group name

Bélè group

Disposition / Setting

Unspecified

Lieu / Location

Le Pérou, Sainte-Marie

Langage / Language

Créole Français de Martinique

Session / Session

Sainte-Marie II 6/62

Date / Date

20/06/1962

Information de référence / Reference information

T1120.0, Track 12 (00:03:29)

Sessions notes / Sessions notes

This session features songs and stories (kont) that typically accompany a wake. Genres include beguine, bélè (also bèlè), and work songs, as well as numerous interviews. Many of the recordings in this session can be found on Caribbean Voyage: The French Antilles (Rounder 1733) and Caribbean Voyage: Martinique (Rounder 1730).

Note d'enregistrement / Recording notes

Unaccompanied song. Alternating solo and call-and-response singing between the lead singer and the chorus.

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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