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Drums of Defiance: Maroon Music from the Earliest Free Black Communities of Jamaica
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produced by Kenneth M. Bilby, 1953- (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1992), 1 hour 9 mins
Featuring complex, West African influenced drumming and dancing, this little-known rural tradition is at the heart of modern, politically charged reggae music. The conviction heard here reveals a long history of struggle. During the 17th and 18th centuries, some of the Africans brought to Jamaica as slaves escap...
produced by Kenneth M. Bilby, 1953- (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1992), 1 hour 9 mins
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Two Palos
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(1910 and 1917); produced by Verna Gillis, 1942- and John Santos; in Music of Cuba (Folkways Records, 1985), 6 mins
(1910 and 1917); produced by Verna Gillis, 1942- and John Santos; in Music of Cuba (Folkways Records, 1985), 6 mins
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Music of Guatemala, Vol. 2
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produced by Jacques Jangoux (Folkways Records, 1973), 42 mins
Produced and recorded by Jacques Jangoux.

"The music presented in this album is typical of rural Guatemala. Most of the inhabitants of this area are Indians of Mayan descent, but almost everywhere in the Guatemalan countryside one can also find Ladinos: persons, of whatever descent, who speak Spanish in their...
produced by Jacques Jangoux (Folkways Records, 1973), 42 mins
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Ae cho ko noye oh
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produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014; in Music of the Coastal Amerindians of Guyana: The Arawak, Carib and Warrau (Folkways Records, 1982), 2 mins
"This recording presents songs of the Warrau, the Carib, and the Arawak Amerindian tribes of Guyana, South America. These families of Amerindian peoples are spread along the rivers and waterways of the Northeast coast of South America, south of the Orinoco and north of the Amazon, but this recording was made enti...
produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014; in Music of the Coastal Amerindians of Guyana: The Arawak, Carib and Warrau (Folkways Records, 1982), 2 mins
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Selk'nam Chants of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, Vol. 2
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produced by Anne MacKaye Chapman (Folkways Records, 1977), 1 hour 33 mins
"This volume is made of 42 chants also recorded in 1966, when Lola Kiepja was approximately ninety years old. She died on October 9 of that year..."

"Este volumen recoge 42 cantos, también grabados en 1966, cuando Lola Kiepja tenía aproximadamente noventa años de edad. Ella murió el 9 de octubre de ese año...
produced by Anne MacKaye Chapman (Folkways Records, 1977), 1 hour 33 mins
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