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Peter Was a Fisherman

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Peter Was a Fisherman

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In 1939 anthropologists Melville and Frances Herskovits carried out a summer's work in Toco Village, Trinidad, where they recorded 352 songs from people in this small Creole community in the northeast corner of the island. They recorded carnival songs (calypsos, kalindas, "Wild Indian" songs), bongos, reels, quadrilles, and sentimental songs, Spiritual Baptist songs and West African (Yoruba) songs -- nearly the whole range of music known by the people of Toco. This collection -- perhaps the finest body of Caribbean field recordings of its era -- was previously accessible only to scholars. For this album (the first in a projected series of albums from the collection), every effort has been made to convey the warmth of the people of Toco and Port of Spain (where some of the Yoruba songs were recorded) through unobtrusive restoration of the sound of the original performances and by accurate annotation of their songs, the beauty of their language, and the circumstances of the recordings.
Product details
Release Date:
1998-02-06
Publication Date:
1998-02-06
Publisher:
Rounder (in-Akustik)
Languages:
Original: English
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
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