This compilation plays like a breathless epic through the sounds of the English, French, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean, pointing out along the way the vivid signs of a much larger, more complex series of musical dynamics than colorfully garbed natives warbling a Harry Belafonte ditty to the twinkling melodies of a steel drum. In its sweep, this set takes in the Dominican Republic's tonados, salves, and work songs still heard in factories today; Haiti's vodu and merengue; and, in Jamaica, the tambu drumming heard only in Trelawny parish, call-and-response digging songs, and mento, the Jamaican form of Calypso that eventually evolved into reggae. Rich and immensely varied, Caribbean music is always rooted in African polyrhythms and call-and-response singing. Yet, as this collection suggests, from work songs all the way up to the most polished modern studio productions, its greatest pleasures are found in its many and varied conflations of Europe and Africa, the African roots that sprout exotic mutants of ancient European ballads, lullabies, and quadrilles. --Elena Oumano
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Explorer Series: The Caribbean - Island Songs and Dances
Various Artists Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD  Dominican Republic
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ASIN: B0000A0WJ5 Release Date: 2003-07-15 |
Tracks:
- Calunga
- Ya Lo Ve
- Amantina
- Canto De Hacha
- Ay Lola Eh
- Salve Corrida
- Pindo Mama Pindo
- Les Deux Jumeaux
- Josephine
- Percy Where Him Gone?
- Bahl 'Oman Bahl
- Georgie Lyon
- Emmanuel Road
- Mango Time
- When I Was In Colon
- Chi Chi Bud-Oh!
- Obeahman
- Mummies
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Originally released in 1972, this delightful and historically important album is finally available in CD format as part of Nonesuch's reissues of the Explorer series. The noted producer/ethnomusicologist John Storm Roberts taped 18 seminal field recordings in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica. Each selection captures a specific Afro-French, Afro-Spanish or Afro-British tradition, but from within its natural cultural context. The tunes are infectiously melodic and rhythmic, hot-house hybrids derived from 19th-century European balladry and assorted African styles. Call-and-response structures are either sung a cappella or flanked by any combination of handclaps, drums, shakers, guitars, thumb-pianos, harmonicas, or even sea-chantey-like accordions. Prototypes of the bolero, merengue, and reggae turn up in unadorned but easily recognizable incarnations, alternating with songs meant to accompany work, play, or religious observance. The tracks not only reveal the roots of today's bewilderingly interrelated Caribbean pop trends but provide intriguing hints of how parallel styles from elsewhere in the African Diaspora might have evolved. --Christina Roden
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Caribbean Island Music: Songs And Dances Of Haiti, The Dominican Republic And Jamaica
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ASIN: B000005IWC Release Date: 1998-01-13 |
Tracks:
- Calunga
- Ya Lo Ve
- Amantina
- Canto De Hacha
- Ay Lola Eh
- Salve Corrida
- Pindo Mama Pindo
- Les Deux Jumeaux
- Josephine
- Percy Where Him Gone?
- Bahl 'Oman Bahl
- Georgie Lyon
- Emmanuel Road
- Mango Time
- When I Was In Colon
- Chi Chi Bud-Oh!
- Obeahman
- Mummies
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This compilation plays like a breathless epic through the sounds of the English, French, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean, pointing out along the way the vivid signs of a much larger, more complex series of musical dynamics than colorfully garbed natives warbling a Harry Belafonte ditty to the twinkling melodies of a steel drum. In its sweep, this set takes in the Dominican Republic's tonados, salves, and work songs still heard in factories today; Haiti's vodu and merengue; and, in Jamaica, the tambu drumming heard only in Trelawny parish, call-and-response digging songs, and mento, the Jamaican form of Calypso that eventually evolved into reggae. Rich and immensely varied, Caribbean music is always rooted in African polyrhythms and call-and-response singing. Yet, as this collection suggests, from work songs all the way up to the most polished modern studio productions, its greatest pleasures are found in its many and varied conflations of Europe and Africa, the African roots that sprout exotic mutants of ancient European ballads, lullabies, and quadrilles. --Elena OumanoWorld Music:
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