Browse Titles - 185 results
Ethnic Drums
Everything Comes to Those Who Wait
Fiesta Mexicana: Javier de Leon's Panorama of Mexico, Old and New
Fiesta Mexicana contains a mix of songs and dance medleys from the festive Mexican music tradition. One track combines the familiar "La Cucaracha" with the song "La Madrugada." The medley draws you in by stating the theme to "La Cucaracha" slowly and wearily at first, then gradually picks up to a lively dance t...
Fiesta Mexicana contains a mix of songs and dance medleys from the festive Mexican music tradition. One track combines the familiar "La Cucaracha" with the song "La Madrugada." The medley draws you in by stating the theme to "La Cucaracha" slowly and wearily at first, then gradually picks up to a lively dance tempo. The sounds of tapping and stomping feet are contagious, making it impossible not to want to join in the fiesta!
Fiesta Mexicana contains a mix of songs and dance medleys from the festive Mexican music tradition. One track combines the familiar "La Cucaracha" with the song "La Madrugada." The medley draws you in by stating the theme to "La Cucaracha" slowly and wearily at first, then gradually picks up to a lively dance tempo. The sounds of tapping and stomping feet are contagious, making it impossible not to want to join in the fiesta!
Show more Show less
Folk Dances and Dance Songs of Argentina
Ronnie and Stu Lipner
"Argentina tiene un rico y variado repertorio de danzas folclóricas que han resultado de la mezcla de dos corrientes culturales distintas. Primero vinieron las danzas adustas y sombrías de los indios del altiplano, que llegaron a la Argentina desde el norte. Luego vinieron los españoles, quienes trajeron con ellos los coloridos y animados ritmos del flamenco, el fandango y el bolero. Más tarde, la inmigración trajo danzas cortesanas de Europa, y todos esos elementos se entremezclaron dándole forma a lo criollo..."
Ronnie and Stu Lipner
Para información sobre ordenar haga clic aquí.
Show more Show less
Folk Guitar, Bahaman Ballads and Rhyming Spirituals
This collection of three virtuosos from the island of Andros is a compilation of several recordings not previously released on Samuel Charters’ series of Bahamian music (see SFW40066, FW03845, and FW03846). Opening with the country’s premiere folk guitarist, Joseph Spence, whose distinctive playing style is...
This collection of three virtuosos from the island of Andros is a compilation of several recordings not previously released on Samuel Charters’ series of Bahamian music (see SFW40066, FW03845, and FW03846). Opening with the country’s premiere folk guitarist, Joseph Spence, whose distinctive playing style is only matched by his own half-singing/half-grunting through his pipe, this collection includes the music of John Roberts and Frederick M...
This collection of three virtuosos from the island of Andros is a compilation of several recordings not previously released on Samuel Charters’ series of Bahamian music (see SFW40066, FW03845, and FW03846). Opening with the country’s premiere folk guitarist, Joseph Spence, whose distinctive playing style is only matched by his own half-singing/half-grunting through his pipe, this collection includes the music of John Roberts and Frederick McQueen who demonstrate the islands’ fading art of three-part anthem singing.
Show more Show less
Folk Music of Jamaica
This compilation provides a glimpse into the secular and religious musics of Jamaica. Work songs sung to occupy and energize manual laborers are placed side by side with "ring play" which consists of spontaneous song-games played in a circle in the moonlight, sometimes during wakes; Christian cult music of Reviva...
This compilation provides a glimpse into the secular and religious musics of Jamaica. Work songs sung to occupy and energize manual laborers are placed side by side with "ring play" which consists of spontaneous song-games played in a circle in the moonlight, sometimes during wakes; Christian cult music of Revival Zion and Pocomania is juxtaposed with "Afro" magico-religious cult music kumina.
Folk Songs of Mexico
Vivien Richman
"El señor Cruz es totalmente ciego; contrajo matrimonio en la primavera de 1957 y su esposa Lucila a veces canta... "Mr. Cruz is totally blind. He got married in the spring of 1957, and his wife, Lucila, sometimes sings with him. He sings in the various sidewalk cafés of Oaxaca and is occasionally hired by a family to help celebrate some happy occasion. He is known affectionately in the community as Alfonsito or Pancho..."
Vivien Richman
"El señor Cruz es totalmente ciego; contrajo matrimonio en la primavera de 1957 y su esposa Lucila a veces canta con él. Cruz suele cantar en varios cafés situados en los paseos de Oaxaca y ocasionalmente es contratado por familias para celebrar alguna feliz ocasión. Dentro de la comunidad se le conoce afectuosamente como Alfonsito o Pancho..."
Vivien Richman
Para información sobre ordenar haga clic aquí.
Show more Show less
Folk Songs of Puerto Rico
It’s all about cultural roots: on this record, the presence of the decima (a ballad-like song form often philosophical in nature) and the pasodoble (a fast Spanish dance that introduces a bull fight and the entrance of the bull fighters) reflects the cultural association of the majority Puerto Ricans to their...
It’s all about cultural roots: on this record, the presence of the decima (a ballad-like song form often philosophical in nature) and the pasodoble (a fast Spanish dance that introduces a bull fight and the entrance of the bull fighters) reflects the cultural association of the majority Puerto Ricans to their Spanish colonial past. A plena (humorous, satirical song of the "common man") is distinctly Puerto Rican. A guaracha (an old-fash...
It’s all about cultural roots: on this record, the presence of the decima (a ballad-like song form often philosophical in nature) and the pasodoble (a fast Spanish dance that introduces a bull fight and the entrance of the bull fighters) reflects the cultural association of the majority Puerto Ricans to their Spanish colonial past. A plena (humorous, satirical song of the "common man") is distinctly Puerto Rican. A guaracha (an old-fashioned Afro-Cuban street dance) ties Puerto Ricans to their Afro-Caribbean heritage.
Show more Show less
Footsteps in the Sand
