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Carnaval in Cuba
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produced by Andrew Schloss (Folkways Records, 1981), 46 mins

As Andrew Schloss explains in the liner notes: “Carnaval has a history of mixing and uniting people of different races, and the merriment and participation in Carnaval has always transcended class boundaries”. Recorded in 1980 in Havana and Santiago de Cuba, Schloss note only captures the unique unifying exper...

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produced by Andrew Schloss (Folkways Records, 1981), 46 mins
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Music from Saramaka: A Dynamic Afro-American Tradition
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produced by Sally Price, 1943- and Richard Price (Folkways Records, 1977), 44 mins
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produced by Sally Price, 1943- and Richard Price (Folkways Records, 1977), 44 mins
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Music of the Coastal Amerindians of Guyana: The Arawak, Carib and Warrau
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produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014 (Folkways Records, 1982), 45 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...
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produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014 (Folkways Records, 1982), 45 mins
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Music of the Haut Oyapok: Oyampi and Emerillon Indians, French Guiana, South America
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produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014 (Folkways Records, 1980), 31 mins
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produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014 (Folkways Records, 1980), 31 mins
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Palicour Indians of the Arucua River in Brazil
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produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014 (Folkways Records, 1981), 25 mins
"The Palicuour of the Arawak family now living along the Oyapok river in two locations, one in French Guiana and the other in Brazil have become acculturated and integrated into the Creole-society. They still maintain and practice distinct cultural traits that make them unique from other indigenous peoples in Sou...
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produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014 (Folkways Records, 1981), 25 mins
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Sacred and Profane Music of the Ika
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produced by Jim Billipp (Folkways Records, 1977), 43 mins
"The Ika (people) are a group of some two thousand native South Americans who live farming and weaving on the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, an isolated mountain mass in the north of Colombia. Each year at the end of June hundreds of Ika converge from the surroundings hills on the village of...
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produced by Jim Billipp (Folkways Records, 1977), 43 mins
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