Browse Titles - 27 results

Sort

Anthology of Brazilian Indian Music: Karajá, Javahé, Kraho, Tukuna, Juruna, Suyá, Trumai Shukarramãe
See details
produced by Vilma Chiara and Harald Schultz (Folkways Records, 1962), 39 mins
"About eight hundred Karaja Indians still live on the shores of the Bananal Island, Araguaia River, in Central Brazil. They have been in peaceful contact with our civilization for more than a century but maintain a high level of their old traditions. During the dry season, from May to October, they erect summer-...
Sample
produced by Vilma Chiara and Harald Schultz (Folkways Records, 1962), 39 mins
×
Anthology of Central and South American Indian Music
See details
produced by Alan Lazar (Folkways Records, 1975), 1 hour 33 mins
"At one time the area or Central and South America was the home of diverse Indian cultures and civilizations ranging from the nomadic hunters of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia, to the river and forest peoples of the Amazon, to the military empires of the Andes and Central Mexico, to the theocratic states of southe...
Sample
produced by Alan Lazar (Folkways Records, 1975), 1 hour 33 mins
×
The Big Drum Dance of Carriacou
See details
produced by Andrew Chernocke Pearse (Folkways Records, 1956), 41 mins

The Big Drum Dance is one of the most significant musical rituals on the island of Carriacou in the Grenadines. Really a long series of dances, the Big Drum Dance is prepared for special festivals such as marriage ceremonies, tombstone raisings, fishing boat launchings and in the case of ill-health or ill-fortun...

Sample
produced by Andrew Chernocke Pearse (Folkways Records, 1956), 41 mins
×
Bongo, Backra & Coolie: Jamaican Roots, Vol. 1
See details
produced by Kenneth M. Bilby, 1953- (Folkways Records, 1975), 40 mins

Jamaican folk music blends African, European and East Indian (in dialect: Bongo, Backra and Coolie) roots into something distinctly Jamaican. Kumina, a magico-religious cult of predominantly rural peasantry, includes invocation of and possession by gods and ancestral spirits aided by songs and drumbeats. Convin...

Sample
produced by Kenneth M. Bilby, 1953- (Folkways Records, 1975), 40 mins
×
Brotando del Silencio - Breaking Out of the Silence
See details
(Paredon Records, 1973), 39 mins
"The history and oppression experienced by the woman of La Raza -'the Latin woman' - in the United States are not well-known, even in these years when so much is heard about women’s liberation. By ‘La Raza’ we mean the dominant population of the American continent, the people who are racial mixture of nativ...
Sample
(Paredon Records, 1973), 39 mins
×
Cancion Protesta: Protest Songs of Latin America
See details
produced by Barbara Dane, 1927- (Paredon Records, 1970), 57 mins
Voices of Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Peru, and Uruguay from the historic meeting of singers from every continent held July 1967. Recorded in Cuba at the Varadero seashore, on the Isle of Youth, and at Radio Havana.
Edited by Barbara Dane

Voces de Argentina, Chile, Cuba, Perú y Uruguay recogidas en el históric...
Sample
produced by Barbara Dane, 1927- (Paredon Records, 1970), 57 mins
×
Chile: Songs for the Resistance
See details
(Paredon Records, 1975), 46 mins
"In every epoch, certain struggles against oppression have come down through history and sum up for us in a single heroic shout the great reservoir of courage and humanity which is the common birthright of all people. France of 1789, Russia of 1917, China of 1949, Cuba of 1959; these are both milestones and symbo...
Sample
(Paredon Records, 1975), 46 mins
×
Creole Music of Surinam
See details
produced by Clifford Entes (Folkways Records, 1978), 47 mins

This collection presents the two main genres of Afro-Dutch Guyanese music—Kawina-winti and Kaseko-Opo Poku. Sung in Taki-Taki (a native Creole dialect consisting of English, Dutch, Portuguese, and African languages) this album offers a glimpse into Surinamese life and the music that accompanies it.

Sample
produced by Clifford Entes (Folkways Records, 1978), 47 mins
×
Cuba Va!: Songs of the New Generation of Revolutionary Cuba
See details
produced by Leo Brouwer, 1939- (Paredon Records, 1971), 34 mins
Written, arranged, performed and produced in Cuba by the Experimental Sound Collective of ICAIC (Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industries). Sung in Spanish, with illustrated booklet, including complete texts and English translations.

Leonardo Acosta, Genaro (Caturla) García, Pedro Guapachá, Luc...
Sample
produced by Leo Brouwer, 1939- (Paredon Records, 1971), 34 mins
×
Dominican Republic: La Hora Esta Llegando! (The Time is Coming)
See details
(Paredon Records, 1974), 41 mins
"Expresión Joven (Voice of Youth) has traveled all across the Dominican Republic during the last year and half under the sponsorship of provincial and national student groups, cultural clubs and workers’ organizations to carry their message. In June of 1973, the group joined the solidarity campaign to free all...
Sample
(Paredon Records, 1974), 41 mins
×

Pages