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Bugenda kilo (Field Card)
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You are too fond of visiting villages in search of women. One day you will meet an angry man who will hit you.'
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Bugenda kilo (Track)
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You are too fond of visiting villages in search of women. One day you will meet an angry man who will hit you.'
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Cambodia: Traditional Music, Vol. 1: Instrumental and Vocal Pieces
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produced by Chinary Ung, 1942- (Folkways Records, 1975), 40 mins
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produced by Chinary Ung, 1942- (Folkways Records, 1975), 40 mins
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Caribbean Folk Music, Vol. 1
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produced by Harold Courlander, 1908-1996 (Folkways Records, 1960), 1 hour 7 mins

Whether purely instrumental or with a chorus, each of these recordings manages to capture the spirit of the English, Spanish, and French speaking Caribbean. Many of the recordings are of dance music as music and dance are commonly linked in Caribbean cultures. Representing fifteen countries this collection spea...

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produced by Harold Courlander, 1908-1996 (Folkways Records, 1960), 1 hour 7 mins
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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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Chakunaka (Field Card)
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This story, told by an old woman, of the handsome young man and his jealous mother is almost identical with a similar story I found amongst the Karange of S. Rhodesia in 1932.
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Chepchoni Marinda (Field Card)
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This lyre is strummed like a Guitar with the right hand, the left hand stopping the five strings, like the Bongwe Zither of Nyasaland. This gave two chords. Notes 1, 3, and 5 and notes 2 and 4. One string, they said, was missing, the lower octave of No. 1. The scale was: - 308, 256, 232, 206, 180, (154) vs.
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Chibola mu lumbai (Field Card)
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The solo part of the leader is answered by four long stanzas, or lines of verse by the chorus.
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Chibola mu lumbai (Track)
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The solo part of the leader is answered by four long stanzas, or lines of verse by the chorus.
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Chila twachinda naba matombo (Field Card)
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A song for Chief Kazembe, also used as a canoe song. These chidlren demonstrate a typically Luunda organum style fo singing.
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