André Charles and His Quisqueya Ibo Combo Group (Haiti)
(Folkways Records, 1975), 40 mins
Details
- Field of Interest
- World Music
- Description
Haitian vocalist and composer André Charles was a Romantic who thoroughly appreciated “Une femme qui belle” (“a beautiful woman”). Songs composed for the Port-au-Prince-based Ibo Combo, popular during the 1970s, are nostalgic tributes to “le Belle Bagaille” (“Beautiful Thing”) that nod to peyizan (peasant) folk practices.
- Content Type
- Music recording
- Duration
- 40 mins
- Format
- Audio
- Sub Genre
- Folk Song, Song
- Label
- Folkways Records
- Release Date
- 1975
- Subject
- World Music, Music & Performing Arts, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, América del Sud, México, Centroamérica y el Caribe, América do Sul, México, América Central e Caribe, Haiti
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- América del Sud, México, Centroamérica y el Caribe, América do Sul, México, América Central e Caribe