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:: Title :: |
Streets Of Laredo (fragment) |
:: Genre :: |
ballad, cowboy song, oration |
:: Performers & Instruments :: |
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:: Group Name :: |
Big Drum group, Fife & drum band, Joy Bells |
:: Setting :: |
Unspecified |
:: Location :: |
Gingerland (Saint George Gingerland), Nevis (St. Kitts and Nevis) |
:: Language :: |
Saint Kitts Creole English |
:: Culture :: |
Caribbean, Nevis, Afro-Caribbean |
:: Session :: |
Gingerland II 7/62
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:: Date :: |
7/11/1962 |
:: Reference Information :: |
T1156.0, Track 9 (00:01:12) |
:: Original Format :: |
Reel to Reel
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:: Session Notes :: |
1 - This session features three different ensembles. It begins with a fife and drum group performing instrumental tunes, followed by a scratch band performing instrumental tunes interspersed with speeches and banter, and concludes with a calypso group. Roger Abrahams and Antoinette Marchand are the interviewers on this session. Some of the recordings (as well as speech transcriptions) can be found on Caribbean Voyage: Nevis and St. Kitts (Rounder 1731). [Source: Recordings and Field Log] |
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:: Recording Notes :: |
0 - Speech interspersed with (solo) singing. The cowboy ballad, only one verse of which is sung, is turned into a sort of Caribbean cante-fable. [Source: Recording] |
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:: Collection :: |
Caribbean 1962 |
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