Material Information
- Title:
- Haitian Avalo (II)
- Physical Description:
- Audio
- Creator:
- SB
Editor
SB
Field Log
SB
Recording
Stewart, Elma ( Performer )
Carton, Francis ( Performer )
Emmanuel, Sam ( Performer )
John, Thomas ( Performer )
- Publication Date:
- 4/28/1962
Subjects
- Genre:
- religious song
dance tune
shango
- Spatial Coverage:
- Trinidad and Tobago -- Port-of-Spain -- Trinidad -- Port-of-Spain
Notes
- General Note:
- Caribbean, Trinidad, Afro-Trinidadian
- General Note:
- Unidentified hall, Upper Laventille
- General Note:
- Port-of-Spain II 4/62
- General Note:
- T
- General Note:
- Caribbean 1962
- General Note:
- Performances involve a number of music and dance styles, including shango (music and dance honoring the orisa deity of fire) and kalenda (Trinidadian dance modeled on the movements of a martial art, accompanied by drumming and song). All of the performances are accompanied by a three-drum ensemble and generally employ an alternating chorus-leader singing style.
- General Note:
- Alan Lomax: "The tunes listed above were sung by members of the Upper Laventille Youth Movement and arrangements for them to be recorded were made by the adults sic organizer Mrs. L. Mulrain who provided the electricity and the hall in which the recording was done. The recording began at 9.45 p.m."
Francis Carton was very versatile both as a drummer (cutter) and as a singer of the Shango songs. Sam Emmanuel is an experienced drummer who has drummed for broadcasting over radio stations in Trinidad."
- General Note:
- Drum ensemble performing in a fast 6/8 rhythm. Lead voice can be heard faintly in the background.
- General Note:
- vocal
- General Note:
- cutter drum
- General Note:
- boula drum
- General Note:
- fuller drum
Record Information
- Rights Management:
- All applicable rights reserved by the source institution and holding location.
- Resource Identifier:
- 1058.0
- System ID:
- CA90000277:00001
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