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The Ramayana
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(Cook Records, 1961), 40 mins
Calypso is not the only musical genre known to Trinidad: there is a large East Indian presence on the Caribbean island, which ensures that the traditional orchestral sounds of India mingle with the sounds of Afro-Caribbean dance musics. In this recording, B.O. Girwarr sings a selection from the first great Sanskr...
(Cook Records, 1961), 40 mins
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Tribal Music of India: The Muria and Maria Gonds of Madhya Pradesh
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produced by Roderic C. Knight (Folkways Records, 1983), 47 mins

A buffalo-horn trumpet, the hakum, announces the joyful harvest festival and varying types of drums called mandri, kotoloka and kundir take over. A group of women chant antiphonally in leadership of the wedding festivities. Men dance on stilts, creating an intoxicating rhythm that is guided by drums. This is a...

produced by Roderic C. Knight (Folkways Records, 1983), 47 mins
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