track: Interview with Bessie Jones about courting her first husband


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her relationship with her baby's father

artist: Bessie Jones, Alan Lomax

album: Bessie Jones I 9/61


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her baby's baptism


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her pregnancy


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the birth of her first child


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about child-rearing


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about weaning and snake stories


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her earliest memories


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about disciplining children (continued)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about disciplining children


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her sharecropper stepfather and moving to Dawson, Georgia


track: You Done What The Law Could Not Do


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her mother and God


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her uncle's strictness and her stepfather's kindness


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her birthplace and upbringing


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about faith and the Miami hurricane of 1926


track: Talk/ambience


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her living in Miami and working as a housekeeper and cook


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her life in the 1920s

artist: Bessie Jones, Alan Lomax, Antoinette Marchand


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her adolescence


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her childhood and schooling in Smithville and Dawson, Georgia


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about conflict resolution


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about black workers' wages and standard of living


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her first job in a cotton field


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about dealing with anger


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about race relations on St. Simons Island


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the temptations of the devil


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the Wise Men and the devil


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the Holiness Church and Christ's conception


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the Church of God in Christ and the Holiness Church


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones about gender roles in the Holiness Church


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about finding the Holy Ghost


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones about the Missionary Baptist and Holiness churches


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones about finding God


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on magic doctors and the devil

album: Bessie Jones I 11/61


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on receiving a sickness curse


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on hunting for buried treasure, bad luck, and spirit divination


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on hunting for buried treasure


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about personal experience with ghosts


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about how to repel ghosts


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the ghosts of the restless dead and spirit energy


track: Ghost story of a dead sea captain and his wife


track: Ghost story about a spirit foretelling a death

artist: Bessie Jones, Antoinette Marchand


track: Story about a ditch-digger and buried treasure

album: Bessie Jones XII 10/61


track: Ghost story about a buried treasure


track: Ghost story about a haunted house (II)


track: Ghost story about a haunted house (I)


track: Ghost story about a haunted wood


track: Story about a traveling preacher and talking animals


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about plantation life, slums, and Florida muck


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about prejudice and violence


track: Interview with Bessie Jones abour overcoming prejudice with faith


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about prejudice


track: Have Mercy, Lord

artist: Bessie Jones


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Have Mercy, Lord


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on anxiety dreams and dream interpretation


track: Commentary by Alan Lomax on his anxiety dreams


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on how to treat a man


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the subjectivity of ethical behavior


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on being born again


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about love


track: There Is More Love Somewhere


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on licorice sticks, nut grass, and buckeye


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the medicinal uses of red corncob and red oak bark


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on her childhood chores


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on curing tapeworms with fennel weed


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the medicinal use of chinaberry bark


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the medicinal uses of shoemake seeds


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the medicinal uses of rock candy


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on sarsaparilla root


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on flag and metal roots


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on flag root, bare-feet root, and bullfrogs


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on rattlesnake master root


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on black snake root


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on sexuality and the growth and strength of children


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the medicinal uses of ginseng, sassafras, dog fennel, and grasses


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the medicinal uses of juniper berries and dandelions


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the medicinal uses of red oak bark, Jerusalem leaves, ginger, and catnip


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the medicinal uses of watermelon seeds, pumpkin seeds, and peach pits


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the medicinal uses of pine rosin


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the medicinal uses of oyster shells


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on herbal remedies during pregnancy and the importance of female cleanliness


track: Joke about talking owls

album: Bessie Jones XI 10/61


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on swamp licorice


track: Story about three foolish country women


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on owl and rabbit stories


track: Riddle about a nursing baby


track: Riddle about a two-horse wagon's shaft


track: Riddle about a man plowing


track: Riddle about fire (II)


track: Riddle about a wheelbarrow


track: Riddle about fire (I)


track: Riddle about a ditch


track: Riddle about a door peg


track: Riddle about greens


track: Riddle about an eye


track: Riddle about a man's shoes


track: Riddle about a bed


track: Riddle about a shoe


track: Riddle about a lie


track: Riddle about an old stove


track: Riddle about a cat


track: Riddle about a cow


track: Riddle about a man, a stool, a ham, and a dog


track: Riddle about a man riding a horse with an upside-down table on his head


track: Riddle about earwax


track: Riddle about a man named Eachman


track: Tongue twister (VII)


track: Tongue twister (VI)


track: Tongue twister (V)


track: Tongue twister (IV)


track: Tongue twister (III)


track: Tongue twister (II)


track: Tongue twister (I)


track: Play-on-words riddle (II)


track: Riddle about a knot on a tree


track: Play-on-words riddle (I)


track: Riddle about a hog rooting in the ground


track: Riddle about a casket


track: Riddle about a bald head


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on her boyfriend Willard

album: Bessie Jones X 10/61


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on interracial affairs


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on West Green, Georgia (II)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on being pursued by a white man


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on West Green, Georgia, and being pursued by a white man


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on West Green, Georgia (I)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on leaving her boyfriend Willard


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on turpentine camps and leaving her boyfriend Willard


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on corn-shuckings


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the lynching of her uncle Son (continued)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the lynching of her uncle Son


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on her second husband Cassius


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on love and marriage


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on dancing and flirting


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Henry and Dora


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on a suitor named Cardell (II)


track: Talk/ambience


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on a suitor named Cardell (I)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Milan, Georgia, and her boyfriend Willard


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her travels


track: Joke about a preacher and a girl afraid of storms


track: Joke about a boy who wets himself


track: Joke about a country girl and her maidenhead


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about small fever and heart attacks

album: Bessie Jones VIII 10/61


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about bone fellum


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about differences in race relations from town to town


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about a white man's attempt to molest her


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the Ku Klux Klan


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the Ku Klux Klan (continued)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on a Civil War-era miracle in Andersonville, Georgia


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on her natural father


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about race relations and lynchings


track: Story about a white beggar with no arms or legs


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on odd behavior


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on getting out of jail


track: Interview with Bessie Jones on her first pregnancy and her mother's relationships


track: Story about a baby sent from the devil


track: Interview with Bessie Jones on school and switches used to force children to pick cotton


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on dealing a school bully


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the eastern shore of Maryland, and corporal punishment


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about racial tension (I)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones on Georgia Sea Island funerary customs


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about racial tension (II)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones on lawful marriage and twins


track: Interview with Bessie Jones on maternal love


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on baby names


track: Indistinct interview with Bessie Jones


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Bob-A-Needle (Bobbin' Needle) and Oh, Green Fields, Roxie

album: Bessie Jones VII 10/61


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Uncle Jesse and Bob-A-Needle (Bobbin' Needle)


track: Oh, Green Fields, Roxie


track: Bob-A-Needle (Bobbin' Needle)


track: Uncle Jesse


track: Sandy Ree (Sangaree)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Sandy Ree (Sangaree)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on East Coast Line and Sandy Ree (Sangaree)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Nana, Thread Needle and Skip To The Barbershop


track: East Coast Line


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about East Coast Line


track: Nana, Thread Needle / Neighbor, Neighbor, Loan Your Hatchet


track: Skip To The Barbershop


track: Just From The Kitchen, Shoolie, Loo (song)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Just From The Kitchen


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Elephant Fair


track: Gonna Get Me A Gator


track: Elephant Fair


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Gonna Get Me A Gator and eating alligator meat


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Annie Belle


track: Annie Belle (John Henry)


track: I Got To Lay In The Old Cold Graveyard, I Got To Lay There For Myself (That Lonesome Valley)


track: Throw Me Overboard


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Dead And Gone


track: Dead And Gone


track: I Wished I Had Wings Like Nora's Dove


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on I Wished I Had Wings Like Norah's Dove (fragment)


track: I Wished I Had Wings Like Nora's Dove (false start) (II)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Tall Angel At The Bar and Lay Your Head In The Window


track: Lay Your Head In The Window


track: Tall Angel At The Bar


track: Get In Union, Jesus Is A-Listenin


track: Goodbye, Sinner, I'm Goin' Away To Leave You


track: I'm Gonna Lay Down My Life For My Lord (fragment)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Get In Union, Jesus Is A-Listenin


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Once There Was No Sun


track: Once There Was No Sun


track: Sign Of The Judgment (You'd Better Run, Sinner)


track: Rock So Low


track: I Got A Sister Over Yonder (By and By, We'll Go And See Her On That Other Shore)


track: You'd Better Leave That Wine Alone


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on You Better Leave That Wine Alone and Rock So Low


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on I Got A Sister Over Yonder


track: Go To Sleepy, Little Baby (All The Pretty Little Horses)


track: Jump That Jody (fragment)


track: Ain't It Hard To Be A Farmer


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Go To Sleepy, Little Baby (All The Pretty Little Horses)


track: Eli, You Can't Stand


track: Shortnin' Bread


track: John, John, You Will See John


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on John, John, You Will See John


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Yes, Ma'am and Shortnin' Bread


track: Steal Miss Liza, Steal Liza Jane


track: Yes, Ma'am


track: Soup, Soup


track: One Saw, Two Saw


track: O Happy Land (Steal Up, Young Lady) (Steal Miss Liza)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on One Saw, Two Saw


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on O Happy Land


track: Come By Here (Kumbaya)


track: Down Here (Sinner Man, You'd Better Run)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Down Here and Come By Here


track: Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around


track: It's That Old Time Power That Keepeth Me Alive


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on It's That Old Time Power That Keepeth Me Alive and Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around


track: It's A Rough And Rugged Road Before You Get To Heaven


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on It's A Rough And Rugged Road


track: My God Is A Rock In A Weary Land


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about It's A Rough And Rugged Road


track: Went To The Meeting, The Lord Followed Me


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on That Old Time Religion and My God Is A Rock In A Weary Land


track: This Same Jesus (fragment)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on oyster cracking and oyster parties


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on old fashioned set dances


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Went To The Meeting, The Lord Followed Me


track: You Need That Old Time Religion


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Watch Night vigils on Christmas and New Year's Eves


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Horse And Buggy


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Crabwalk and Hop Like A Frog


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Turn The Pan


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about women's hair


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about repentance, speaking in tongues, and the process of purging


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about gossip and her first marriage


track: I Wish I Could Play On David's Harp


track: Live Humble


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones and Antoinette Marchand on Live Humble and I Wish I Could Play On David's Harp


track: This Is Good Religion (I'm So Glad)


track: Hush, Hush


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Live Humble


track: You Better Mind


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on You Better Mind and Hush, Hush


track: Ride On, King


track: I Got To Lie Down, How Shall I Rise?


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Ride On, King and You Better Mind


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Roll On Sweet Moment, Roll On and I Got To Lie Down, How Shall I Rise?


track: Roll On, Sweet Moment, Roll On


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Go On, I'll Go With You


track: Go On, I'll Go With You


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about This Is Good Religion (I'm So Glad)


track: I Don't Know What I'd Do Without The Lord (II)


track: I Don't Know What I'd Do Without The Lord (I)


track: How Much I Owe For Love Divine


track: Interview with Bessie Jones on I Don't Know What I Will Do Without The Lord


track: What Do You Want Your Lord To Say?


track: A Charge To Keep I Have


track: The Blood Done Sign My Name


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on A Charge To Keep I Have and What Do You Want Your Lord To Say?


track: If You Started For The Kingdom


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on If You Started For The Kingdom and The Blood Done Sign My Name


track: I, John, Saw The Number Way In The Middle Of The Air


track: I Want To Be Ready To Walk In Jerusalem Just Like John


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about I Want To Be Ready To Walk In Jerusalem Just Like John and If You Started For The Kingdom


track: You Ought To Get Tired Sometime (Scandalize My Name)


track: Look-A-Yonder (Traveling Shoes)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on You Ought To Get Tired Sometime (Scandalize My Name) and I Want To Be Ready To Walk In Jerusalem Just Like John


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Look-A-Yonder (Traveling Shoes) and You Ought To Get Tired Sometime (Scandalize My Name)


track: Go Where I Send Thee


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on There's Plenty Good Room and Go Where I Sent Thee


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Go Where I Send Thee and Look-A-Yonder (Travelling Shoes)


track: There's Plenty Good Room


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Heavy, Heavy and Turn The Pan


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on I Am A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord and I, John, Saw The Number Way In The Middle Of The Air


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Club Fists and Uncle Tom


track: Johnny Cuckoo (song)


track: William, William, Trimbletoe


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on William, William, Trimbletoe


track: One Saw, Two Saw


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Steal Miss Liza and Johnny Cuckoo


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on One Saw, Two Saw


track: Go In And Out The Window


track: I Am A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Pick A Bale Of Cotton and regional song and language variations


track: Pick A Bale Of Cotton


track: East Coast Line


track: Nana, Thread Needle


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the term bunkum and East Coast Line


track: Regular, Regular Rollin' Under


track: Knock Jim Crow


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Where Are You Going, Buzzard


track: Moses, Moses (Don't Get Lost)


track: All Of My Sin Been Taken Away


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Regular, Regular, Rollin' Under


track: Drive Old Satan Away


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Drive Old Satan Away and Moses, Moses, Don't Get Lost


track: The Devil Got To Move


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on old singing styles


track: Pick A Bale Of Cotton (fragment)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Pick A Bale Of Cotton


track: Go In And Out The Window


track: Mister Brown


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Sue, Sue (fragment)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on When The Bridegroom Comes and weddings


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Oh, Green Fields, Roxie and Mister Brown


track: Don't Be Like The Foolish Virgin When The Bridegroom Comes


track: Old Ark's A Moverin'


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about singing spirituals in concert


track: I'm A Rollin', I'm A Rollin' (Everybody's A Rolling Stone)


track: One Of These Days


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about One Of These Days and I'm A Rollin', I'm A Rollin'


track: It Is Well And Good I Come Here


track: I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray and It Is Well And Good I Come Here


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about working on a bean farm (V)

album: Bessie Jones VI 10/61


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on food stalls in the fields and fish fries


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about working on a bean farm (IV)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about working on a bean farm (II)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about working on a bean farm (III)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the affects of drinking


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on moonshine (conclusion)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on moonshine (continued)


track: Grasses Of Green

artist: Jane Brandy, Ida Jeffers, Lina Jeffers, Rosaly Jeffers, Alan Lomax, Martha Nias

album: Brick Kiln Village 7/62


track: Willie Boy


track: Interview with Rosalie Jeffers and others about Dance The Boatman Dance


track: Dance The Boatman Dance

artist: Jane Brandy, Ida Jeffers, Lina Jeffers, Rosaly Jeffers, Martha Nias


track: Interview with Rosalie Jeffers about Willie Boy

artist: Rosaly Jeffers, Alan Lomax


track: Something Lead Me To Ha-Ha-Ha


track: Willie Boy (false start)


track: Mister Dog, He Went To Town


track: Alan Lomax requests a tune / Mister Dog, He Went To Town (false start)


track: How Green You Are

artist: Unidentified children, Anita Wilkens


track: Baby, Rock Away


track: Little Sally Water


track: Aunty Nanny Thread The Needle (II)

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified children, Anita Wilkens


track: Aunty Nanny Thread The Needle (I)


track: One, Two, Three (II)


track: One, Two, Three (I)


track: Who Stole The Cookie From The Cookie Jar?


track: My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean

artist: Joseph Brandy, Alan Lomax, Cedric Williams, Samuel Williams


track: A Walking Piece

artist: Joseph Brandy, Cedric Williams, Samuel Williams


track: Quadrille


track: Police Summons A Lady


track: Interview with Jean Eustache Stoute about Ay Si, Ay No text and her biography

artist: Alan Lomax, Jean (Jane) Eustache Stoute

album: Blanchisseuse II 5/62


track: Ay Si, Ay No (II)

artist: Jean (Jane) Eustache Stoute


track: Interview with Jean Eustache Stoute about song text, social norms, and biography

artist: Jacob Delworth (J. D.) Elder, Alan Lomax, Jean (Jane) Eustache Stoute, Unidentified man


track: Ay Si, Ay No (I)


track: Interview with Jean Eustache Stoute about game song and text

artist: Jacob Delworth (J. D.) Elder, Jean (Jane) Eustache Stoute


track: Moin Hele A Mao' Nayoute


track: Aufuékay Do Mama Do Mama

artist: J. B. Castiano, Rosy Castiano, Procope Charles, Herman Fournillier, W. Alwyn Lequay, Andrew Moline, Sicirao Ramaize, Annestine Reyes, Jean (Jane) Eustache Stoute


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Unidentified


track: Diamond In The Ring (Ring Diamond)

artist: J. B. Castiano, Rosy Castiano, Procope Charles, Herman Fournillier, W. Alwyn Lequay, Andrew Moline, Sicirao Ramaize, Annestine Reyes, Jean (Jane) Eustache Stoute, Unidentified


track: Si-Si-Maria


track: Interview with Jean Eustache Stoute about game songs


track: I Have a Tree (II)


track: Za Qui Tini By Lorte


track: I Have A Tree (I)


track: Dodo Petit Popo


track: Tamalay


track: Mamselle Marie Wo Wo Wo


track: Interview with Jean Eustache Stoute about Dahlia tewe


track: Dahlia Tewe


track: Interview with Annestine Reyes about Déypi moin fet

artist: Alan Lomax, Annestine Reyes


track: Déypi Moin Fet


track: Interview with a performer about Manzanari

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Manzanari

artist: Sicirao Ramaize, Unidentified


track: Interview with performers about Sereno Serena

artist: Alan Lomax, Andrew Moline, Sicirao Ramaize


track: Sereno Serena


track: Interview with Jean Eustache Stoute about singing

album: Blanchisseuse I 5/62


track: Wai, Wai Wai Negwesse Sorte


track: Tat-la Monte


track: Partisan Moin Ailas


track: Interview with Jean Eustache Stoute about Veni L' Amou


track: Veni L' Amou (Come My Dear) (I)


track: Veni L' Amou (Come My Dear) (II)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about overcoming racism

artist: Bessie Jones, Alan Lomax

album: Bessie Jones III 3/62


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the evil of greed


track: Interview with Bessie Jones on God's omnipotence and skin color in the Bible


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about prejudice and skin color


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about prejudice, racial insults, and diversity


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on an attempt to rob her grandmother and a family with two blind children

artist: Bessie Jones, Alan Lomax, Antoinette Marchand


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on a white woman giving birth to a black child


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her debating society


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on passing and interracial relationships


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about interracial relationships (II)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about interracial relationships (I)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on whites consulting a black conjurer


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about musical conjuration and removing spells


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on conjurers


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on spirits and hoodoo medicine


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about selling one's soul to the devil


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about smoking pipes


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Native Americans (fragment)

artist: Bessie Jones, Antoinette Marchand


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Robert Johnson, selling ones soul to the devil, and casting spells for ability


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the devil (II)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on being saved, abortion, and the devil


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about the devil (I)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Lake Okeechobee and Native Americans


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about California and Christianity


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the Florida storm of 1928 (continued)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the Florida storm of 1928


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Florida muck ground


track: Everglades toast


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on witchcraft (continued)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on witchcraft


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on telephones


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on being accused of stealing


track: Down To The Mire

artist: Bessie Jones


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on graft on cotton plantations


track: Who Built The Ark


track: Neg-la Rivé, Oué A Kende

artist: Ferguson (Sugar Tamarind) Adams, Daniel Aikens, Larena Clement, May Fortune, Mannie James, Caddy Lazarus John, Jemina Joseph, Newton Joseph, Beatrice Lazarus, Tida Lazarus, Mrs. Silvisa, Matilda Noel

album: Bellevue 7/62


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Down To The Mire


track: Interview with Bessie Jones on Who Built The Ark


track: Interview with May Fortune about Djerika-o

artist: May Fortune, Alan Lomax


track: Djerika-o

artist: Ferguson (Sugar Tamarind) Adams, Daniel Aikens, Larena Clement, May Fortune, Mannie James, Caddy Lazarus John, Jemina Joseph, Newton Joseph, Beatrice Lazarus, Tida Lazarus, Alan Lomax, Mrs. Silvisa, Matilda Noel


track: Medley of hymns


track: Show Me The Road

artist: Ferguson (Sugar Tamarind) Adams, Daniel Aikens, Larena Clement, May Fortune, Mannie James, Caddy Lazarus John, Jemina Joseph, Beatrice Lazarus, Tida Lazarus, Mrs. Silvisa, Joseph Newton, Matilda Noel


track: Interview with May Fortune about Show Me The Road

artist: May Fortune, Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Ferguson (Sugar Tamarind) Adams, Daniel Aikens, Larena Clement, May Fortune, Mannie James, Caddy Lazarus John, Jemina Joseph, Beatrice Lazarus, Tida Lazarus, Alan Lomax, Mrs. Silvisa, Joseph Newton, Matilda Noel


track: Khaki-o, Wé Yo Diamonds


track: Interview with May Fortune about Khaki-o, Wé Yo Diamonds


track: Waterloo My Boy, Turn Me Round


track: Dité, Di-té-o


track: Hush Baby, Hush Baby

artist: Tida Lazarus, Unidentified


track: Interview with Tida Lazarus about Hush Baby, Hush Baby

artist: Tida Lazarus, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Jemina Joseph about Oko

artist: Jemina Joseph, Alan Lomax


track: Oko

artist: Ferguson (Sugar Tamarind) Adams, Daniel Aikens, Larena Clement, May Fortune, Mannie James, Caddy Lazarus John, Jemina Joseph, Beatrice Lazarus, Tida Lazarus, Mrs. Silvisa, Matilda Noel, Unidentified


track: Interview with performers about kalenda and Di Ye Mwe 'Rivé

artist: Jemina Joseph, Alan Lomax, Unidentified, Unidentified woman


track: Di Ye Mwe 'Rivé

artist: Ferguson (Sugar Tamarind) Adams, Daniel Aikens, Larena Clement, May Fortune, Mannie James, Caddy Lazarus John, Jemina Joseph, Beatrice Lazarus, Tida Lazarus, Alan Lomax, Mrs. Silvisa, Matilda Noel, Unidentified


track: Interview with May Fortune about Maiwaz-o


track: Maiwaz-o


track: Corporal Williams


track: Aunty-o, Coro, Coro

artist: Ferguson (Sugar Tamarind) Adams, Daniel Aikens, Larena Clement, May Fortune, Mannie James, Caddy Lazarus John, Jemina Joseph, Beatrice Lazarus, Tida Lazarus, Alan Lomax, Mrs. Silvisa, Matilda Noel


track: Interview with Jemina Joseph about Aunty-o, Coro, Coro


track: Anansi-o-e


track: Temne Woman-o


track: Igbo Le Le


track: Femme-la Ka Élé-o


track: Ju Noel / Juba-lo


track: Mmwe Malade Ayo


track: Talk/ambience


track: Quilbe

artist: Ferguson (Sugar Tamarind) Adams, Daniel Aikens, Caddy Lazarus John


track: Juba

artist: Ferguson (Sugar Tamarind) Adams, Daniel Aikens, Caddy Lazarus John, Unidentified


track: Cromanti


track: Lindi Aprês-midi, Ma Conglin Tumbé Malade (II)

artist: Harold Simmons, Unidentified

album: Anse La Raye II 7/62


track: Mama Mwen Mal Marière (Mama, He's Making Eyes At Me)

artist: Alpha Ferguston, Unidentified


track: Lindi Aprês-midi, Ma Conglin Tumbé Malade (I)

artist: Harold Simmons


track: O Soi Pa Day

artist: Unidentified


track: Lindi Aprês-midi, Ma Conglin Tumbé Malade (I) (false start)


track: Commentary by Alpha Ferguston on the Allen Mwen Ça Allé

artist: Alpha Ferguston


track: Tout Bagaille


track: Allen Mwen Ça Allé


track: Dodo Mwen

artist: Alpha Ferguston, Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Drinking song

artist: Benton Harold, Unidentified


track: Interview with Alpha Ferguston about Dodo Mwen

artist: Alpha Ferguston, Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Israel-o


track: Interview with Alpha Ferguston about chanté abwè


track: Calypso

artist: Garphill Palague, Unidentified men


track: Mamen Mwen


track: Djab-la Crié Mwen


track: Papillon Ça Volé

artist: Benton Harold, Unidentified woman


track: Introduction to Djab-la Crié Mwen


track: Lindi Mwen La Riviè (II)

artist: Unidentified women, Helena Williams


track: Ay Zabèl-o


track: Lindi Mwen La Riviè (I)


track: Tina, Vini, Iche

artist: Eldrina Jules

album: Anse La Raye I 7/62


track: Palama Brulé


track: Dormi, Iche

artist: Helena Williams


track: Interview with Helena Williams about Dormi, Iche

artist: Alan Lomax, Helena Williams


track: Chanté, O-Maria Chanté

artist: Prince Albert, Lard Callisc, Alpha Ferguston, Jones Gerard, Benton Herelle, Dickson Herelle, Maford Jobier, Joseph Launes, McNeil Modest


track: Minou


track: Luisi, Luisi / Interview with performers about Luisi, Luisi

artist: Prince Albert, Lard Callisc, Alpha Ferguston, Jones Gerard, Benton Herelle, Dickson Herelle, Maford Jobier, Joseph Launes, Alan Lomax, McNeil Modest


track: Interview with a performer about Bwa, Bwa Bord D`la Mar / Introduction of performers


track: Bwa, Bwa Bord D`la Mar


track: Laborers calling for food


track: Églanise-o


track: A Toute-o, Aye, Fwè Mwen


track: Compère Lapin Y Compère Chauval (The Rabbit And The Horse)


track: Marie Galante


track: Y Bai Ça


track: Mwen Malade, Mwen Allé Au Ti Docteur


track: Je Suis La Rose

artist: Therbies Fedee, Emannel Jauves, Eldrina Jules, Joseph Laures, Mrs. Clifford Philips, Patrick Simon, Helena Williams


track: Interview with a performer about wake songs

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Mwen Malade, Mwen Allé Au Ti Docteur (false start)


track: Ouverte, Ouverte Roi D'leau


track: Here We Are Today

artist: Therbies Fedee, Emannel Jauves, Eldrina Jules, Joseph Laures, Alan Lomax, Mrs. Clifford Philips, Patrick Simon, Helena Williams


track: Hurrah


track: Here We Are Today (fragment)


track: Brillé, Brillé, Jeunease La Rose En Brillé


track: Interview with Clement Bishop Desir about the La Rose society and festivities

artist: Clement Bishop Desir, Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Vive La Rose!

artist: Beresford Desir, Clement Bishop Desir, Alpha Ferguston, Helena Williams


track: Drown In My Own Tears

artist: Tom Paxton

album: Tom Paxton 1961


track: Git Along, Little Dogies


track: Unidentified guitar and scat tune


track: Interview with Tom Paxton about Train For Auschwitz (I See A Long Train Coming)

artist: Alan Lomax, Tom Paxton


track: Train For Auschwitz (I See A Long Train Coming)


track: Wildwood Flower


track: Interview with Tom Paxton about his childhood and his performance of Wildwood Flower


track: Interview with Tom Paxton about Good Old Colony Days and Dick Giddons


track: Good Old Colony Days


track: Just A Little Talk With Jesus (It's All Right)

artist: Reverend McKinley Peebles, Unidentified woman

album: McKinley Peebles 11/61


track: You've Got To Reap Just What You Sow


track: I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone

artist: Reverend McKinley Peebles


track: Ghost story about a haunted church

artist: Bessie Jones, Antoinette Marchand


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on working in Florida, vegetables and cooking


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on her uncle's guitar and the difference between rags and reels


track: Story about Bessie Jones' uncle and a watermelon patch


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on making watermelon syrup and preserves


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the medicinal uses of prickly ash


track: Prodigal Son

artist: Bessie Jones


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the Prodigal Son


track: Another Day The Lord Have Kept Me


track: Ol' Rowdy Slow


track: Way Go, Lily


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on herbal remedies, aphrodisiacs, and a cross-dressing farmhand


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on spirits in dreams and sleeping in graveyard

artist: Bessie Jones, Alan Lomax, Antoinette Marchand


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the assassination of a senator


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on fostering a lost girl


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on moonshine


track: Riddles about a sailboat, a bald man, and a casket


track: Story about the rabbit and the alligator


track: Story about a Creole boy who looked like meat


track: Story about a plan to rob Joseph and Mary

artist: Bessie Jones, Alan Lomax

album: Bessie Jones V 10/61


track: Story about a girl who was engaged to the devil


track: Story about a spoiled wife


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on leaving her first husband


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on marital fidelity


track: Story of a thwarted rendezvouz / Go Away From My Window


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on moonshiners and the police


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about a decent plantation owner (conclusion)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about a decent plantation owner (continued)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about a decent plantation owner (I)


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about race, work in the cotton fields, and snuff


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about racism and the Ku Klux Klan


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about civil rights


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about prejudice


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Revelation and damnation


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about hair and fashion


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Easter


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Fourth of July celebrations


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on cabbage and death


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on eating black-eyed peas at New Year's


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones about new shoes at Christmas


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Christmas and quilt-making


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Christmas pageants, meals, and presents


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on her childhood Christmases


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on meeting her husband


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on her childhood dreams


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about work songs (fragment)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on jack-legging and making wine


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on drinking


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on stump-knocking preachers


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the health of the poor and the benefits of exercise

album: Bessie Jones IX 10/61


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on fresh air and personal hygeine


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on a healthy diet


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the poor and polio


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on marriage and killer mules


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on mules and the Bible


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on women's roles


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on infidelity


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on gender differences


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on her enemies


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on her husband


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on her working life


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on respect for the elderly


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on courtship / Story of the Prodigal Son


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on escaping the temptations of the devil and on infidelity


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on being alone


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about her love of the woods

album: Bessie Jones I 11/61


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on see-saw rhymes

album: Bessie Jones I 10/61


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on laughter


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on visiting an uncle


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on male and female anatomy


track: Toast about drinking


track: Toast about a lost daughter


track: Toast about a man with crabs


track: Toast used by a woman to insult a man


track: Toast about quitting drinking


track: Toast about a white man, a Chinese man, and a black man


track: Toasts about an elephant jumping rope and a man sleeping with his father's wife


track: Toast about whiskey


track: Toast about a man and woman


track: Toast about three whores


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the devil, evil spirits, and witchcraft (III)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the devil, evil spirits, and witchcraft (II)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on the devil, evil spirits, and witchcraft (I)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on witches and black cats


track: Story of a man who prayed to see his dead son


track: Story of a slave who asked the devil to take his master


track: Story about a lazy man named Enoch


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on homemade musical instruments


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on witnessing a shooting


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Northern versus Southern women


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on toasting


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on marriage (II)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on marriage (III)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on marriage (I)


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on caring for a husband


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on baptism

album: Bessie Jones 6/61


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on slavery, racism, and the sexual mistreatment of black women by white men


track: Go Wash In The Beautiful Stream


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Buzzard Lope


track: Buzzard Lope


track: Lord, Our Neighbor's So Sweet


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Old Bill Rolling Pin


track: My Name Is Morgan, But Not J. P.


track: Old Bill Rolling Pin


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about Shoo Turkey


track: Shoo Turkey


track: Interview with Bessie Jones about music and dancing in the turpentine camps


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Pigeon Wing and Wire Gal


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Possum-la


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on Coonshine


track: Commentary by Bessie Jones on I'm Gonna Sink Titanic


track: Walking In The Parlor

artist: Hobart Smith

album: Williamsburg 4/60


track: Katy Went Fishing With Her Hook And Line


track: Wedding drumming (VII)

artist: Unidentified

album: Charlo Village 5/62


track: Wedding song and drumming (I)

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified women


track: Wedding song and drumming (II)


track: Wedding song and drumming / Commentary by Alan Lomax

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified, Unidentified women


track: Wedding song (III)

artist: Unidentified women


track: Wedding drumming (VI)


track: Interview with a performer about wedding singing

artist: Antoinette Marchand, Unidentified woman


track: Wedding drumming (V)


track: Wedding song / Bride welcoming groom


track: Wedding drumming (IV)


track: Talk/ambience


track: Wedding drumming (III)


track: Rice-popping song


track: Wedding drumming (II)


track: Delivery of rites

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified priest


track: Wedding song (I)


track: Commentary on wedding by Alan Lomax (II)

artist: Alan Lomax


track: Wedding song (II)


track: Women's march (V)


track: Women's march (IV)


track: Women's march (III)


track: Women's march (II)


track: Women's march (I)


track: Wedding drumming (conclusion)


track: Wedding drumming (continued)


track: Wedding song (fragment) (II)

artist: Unidentified man


track: Ampagan

artist: Lal Singh, Latchmin Soogrim, Unidentified man, Unidentified women


track: Wedding drumming


track: Wedding song (fragment) (I)

artist: Lal Singh, Latchmin Soogrim, Unidentified, Unidentified women


track: Ampagan (continued) / Commentary by Alan Lomax

artist: Alan Lomax, Lal Singh, Latchmin Soogrim, Unidentified man, Unidentified women


track: Interview with Latchmin Soogrim about Ampagan text and performance

artist: Antoinette Marchand, Latchmin Soogrim


track: Commentary on wedding by Alan Lomax / Interview with a wedding guest about the altar symbols

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Wedding song and rice popping (II)


track: Wedding song and rice popping (I)


track: Commentary on wedding by Alan Lomax (I)


track: Ghazal

artist: Badram Mahato, Naz Mohammed, Satar Mohammed, Karen Ramlochan, Sampson , Lal Singh, Unidentified man


track: Mira Bina Sobinay

artist: Badram Mahato, Naz Mohammed, Satar Mohammed, Karen Ramlochan, Sampson , Lal Singh


track: Interview with Sampson about ghazal

artist: Alan Lomax, Sampson


track: Interview with a performer about Mira Bina Sobinay


track: Commentary on instruments by Alan Lomax

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified men


track: Ramein


track: Interview with unidentified performer about Ramein


track: Wedding song

artist: Unidentified

album: Charlieville 5/62


track: A Kitma

artist: B. Beharry, D. Lakindar, Mike Mathura, M. Seepaul, B. Suchit


track: Holy Ramayana (II)

artist: D. Lakindar, Mike Mathura, S. Ramroop, M. Seepaul, Sankar Sinanan, B. Suchit


track: Biraha (II)

artist: Mike Mathura, Unidentified


track: Biraha (I)


track: Hosein drumming

artist: Dhanasar, Dhanlalee, Isaac, Sibratt


track: Biraha (false start)


track: Interview with Isaac about his biography and tassa drumming

artist: Isaac


track: Nagara

artist: Dhanasar, Dhanlalee, Isaac, Sibratt, Unidentified man


track: Khanjaree


track: Dhurpat


track: Tilana


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Unidentified men


track: Bhajan (IV)

artist: Boodran Dhanram, D. Lakindar, S. Ramroop, M. Seepaul, Unidentified


track: Tilana (false start)


track: Sadwa


track: Interview with Boodran Dhanram about ramayana and bhajan performance

artist: Boodran Dhanram, Unidentified man


track: Awa Gawan


track: Bhajan (III)


track: Gocool Mai Hare Away

artist: Mrs. Rajmatee Ramberan


track: Interview with Boodran Dhanram about bhajan performance


track: Interview with unidentified woman about her biography

artist: Unidentified man, Unidentified woman


track: Jhulo Jhulo Kenhaiya Ya Lalana

artist: Mrs. Lutchman Ramsubhag, Unidentified, Unidentified women


track: Rice planting song

artist: Bridgmohan, Ram Gopaul, Mike Mathura


track: Commentary on rice planting song by performer

artist: Unidentified man


track: Holy Ramayana (I)


track: Commentary on sohar by performers


track: Commentary on sohar by performer (continued)


track: Sohar

artist: Mrs. Ram Gopaul, Mrs. Somaria Rampersad


track: Barso Barso


track: Commentary on Barso Barso by performers

artist: Unidentified men, Unidentified woman


track: Bailar


track: Commentary on Jata Ka Geet by Mrs. Ram Gopaul and Mrs. Somaria Rampersad

artist: Mrs. Ram Gopaul, Mrs. Somaria Rampersad, Unidentified man


track: Jata Ka Geet


track: Bhajan (II)


track: Bhajan (I)


track: Kali ritual singing (IV)

artist: Benjamin Govindin, Grand Prêtre, Edouard Souprayen, Unidentified

album: Capesterre Belle-Eau 7/62


track: Drumming demonstration

artist: Alan Lomax, Grand Prêtre


track: Kali ritual singing (II) (continued)


track: Kali ritual singing (III)


track: Kali ritual drumming (II)


track: Kali ritual drumming (III)


track: Kali ritual singing (II)


track: Kali ritual drumming (I)


track: Kali ritual singing (I)


track: Interview with Catherine Telemaque about her biography

artist: Antoinette Marchand, Catherine Telemaque

album: Calibishie 6/62


track: Hush, Hush Little Baby (II)

artist: Catherine Telemaque


track: Hush, Hush Little Baby (I)


track: Walking Up The Green Grass

artist: Jane Brandy, Ida Jeffers, Lina Jeffers, Rosaly Jeffers, Martha Nias

album: Brick Kiln Village 7/62


track: One Finger, A Trumpet Keep Moving


track: Wild Lily Wallflower


track: When I Was A Happpy And Single


track: Ring-a Diamond


track: The Monkey Song

artist: Anita Crawford, Edison Harrigan, Joseph Harrigan, Cyril Hodge, Ernest Hodge, James Hodge, Joseph Hodge, Lizabeth Hodge, Alan Lomax, Mary Vanterpool

album: Copse Eastern 7/62


track: Oh Lady You're Mashin' Me Toe


track: All Round The Ring, Pantalette


track: Interview with a perfomer about round dancing

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Spit Fire, Throw Away

artist: Anita Crawford, Edison Harrigan, Joseph Harrigan, Cyril Hodge, Ernest Hodge, James Hodge, Joseph Hodge, Lizabeth Hodge, Mary Vanterpool


track: Interview with a performer about Spit Fire, Throw Away


track: Interview with a performer about Tell Mister Duncan I Want More Coil Rope


track: Tell Mister Duncan I Want More Coil Rope (I)


track: Tell Mister Duncan I Want More Coil Rope (II)


track: Haul Away


track: Four toasts


track: Introductions and toasts


track: Tom Gone Away


track: Interview with Ernest Hodge about jollification

artist: Ernest Hodge, Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Somebody 'Round


track: Island Deh


track: Interview with Leopold Blanchard about La Prospère

artist: Leopold Blanchard, Alan Lomax

album: Colombier 7/62


track: La Prospère

artist: Leopold Blanchard, Félix Gump


track: Dans Grand Matin Je Me Suis Levé

artist: Félix Gump


track: Mon Vieux Mari (with interview)

artist: Alan Lomax, Jean Francois Magras, Unidentified


track: Interview with Félix Gump about stories he knows

artist: Félix Gump, Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: A La Pon Pon Pon


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Félix Gump, Alan Lomax


track: Rossignol Dans Bois


track: Rossignol Dans Vert Bocage


track: Interview with Félix Gump about his biography and repertoire


track: La Chassure D'Isabella

artist: Bernard Greaux


track: Rossignol Dans Vert Bocage (false start)


track: Interview with Bernard Greaux about La Chassure D'Isabella

artist: Bernard Greaux, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Bernard Greaux about his biography and repertoire


track: Interview with Bernard Greaux about Viré Viré Angélina


track: Viré Viré Angélina


track: La Saucisse De Strasburg


track: Unidentified film song

artist: Unidentified woman


track: Interview with performer about unidentified film song

artist: Antoinette Marchand, Unidentified woman


track: Interview with Rookmin Beekho / Lullaby

artist: Rookmin Beekho, Antoinette Marchand


track: Je Li Tu

artist: Alan Lomax, Antoinette Marchand, Unidentified children


track: Little Sally Walker (variant)

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified children


track: Demonstration of speaking to a baby

artist: Rookmin Beekho, Alan Lomax


track: Krishna Bhajan

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified women


track: Lullaby (fragment)

artist: Rookmin Beekho


track: Rama Bhajan

artist: Rookmin Beekho, Unidentified, Unidentified women


track: Commentary on wedding by Alan Lomax (III)

artist: Alan Lomax


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Unidentified


track: Wedding song (V)

artist: Unidentified women


track: Blessing

artist: Unidentified man


track: Wedding drumming (VIII)


track: Interview with performers about wedding song text

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified women


track: Wedding song (IV)


track: Apres Toi, Je N' Aurais Plus

artist: Manuel Magras

album: Flamands I 7/62


track: I'll Be There

artist: Yvonne Andrews

album: Diego Martin II 4/62


track: O Sailor Boy (Soldier, Soldier)

artist: Elah Andrews, Nollie Andrews


track: Take Down The Blind / If You Want To See A Monkey Dance


track: Oh Boy Le' We Pull De Wood

artist: Cyril Balfour, Julian Carey, Paul Charles, R. R. Hammond, C. Jemmot, Cheery Noel, Cyrus Smith, Alston Vidale

album: Diego Martin I 4/62


track: Down Below (Mosquito And Sand-Fly)


track: Rock De Baby To Sleep


track: Introduction to Oh Boy Le' We Pull De Wood by unidentified men (II)

artist: Unidentified men


track: Announcement by unidentified man (I)


track: Mois De L' Amou' / Arise And Open The Door


track: Mois De L' Amou' (incomplete)


track: Mois De L' Amou' (with introduction and concluding speech)


track: Mama Moi-è Bouilli Di-riz Doux (with introduction)


track: O Daniel


track: Joy-ce-la-la Mahabir


track: Adriana-O


track: Pass Manuel / Something There To Cool You


track: Diamon' In Da Ring


track: Bring It With A Willing Mind


track: Abide With Me


track: Crow Mammy Crow


track: Gables Gables


track: Bongo Macedonia


track: Interview with performers about Sambo Caesar

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified men


track: Sambo Caesar


track: Talk/ambience


track: I Saw The Light House, Amen / We're Goin' Down To Jordan

artist: Lorenzia Benjamin, Quenton Briggs, Austin Charles, Mervin Charles, Ernest Cova, Fenton Crawford, John Douglas, Anthony Lagua, Errol Marcano, Lawrence Mendez, Ben Thomas, Elton Vincent, Harold Wilson

album: Diego Martin 5/62


track: I Touch My Finger With A Golden Pen


track: The Morning Star Begins To Rise (II)


track: The Lord Is My Shepherd


track: The Morning Star Begins To Rise (I)


track: Story Of Mister James (continued)

artist: Fenton Crawford, Unidentified


track: Story Of Mister James


track: Story of God's bird


track: Mama Mouin-li Bouilli Di-riz Doux

artist: Austin Charles, Ernest Cova, Ben Thomas


track: Creole story

artist: Austin Charles, Unidentified


track: Riddles and jokes told by Ben Thomas

artist: Jacob Delworth (J. D.) Elder, Alan Lomax, Ben Thomas, Unidentified


track: Dorothy Rambo

artist: Quenton Briggs, Austin Charles, Mervin Charles, Ernest Cova, Fenton Crawford, John Douglas, Anthony Lagua, Errol Marcano, Lawrence Mendez, Ben Thomas, Elton Vincent, Harold Wilson


track: Interview with bongo performer about drums

artist: Jacob Delworth (J. D.) Elder, Unidentified man


track: Interview with Austin Charles about Who Killed The Coolie Man

artist: Austin Charles, Alan Lomax


track: Who Killed The Coolie Man?


track: Signala


track: Jonah Gone


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Unidentified


track: Interview with bongo performers


track: Gables (II)


track: Crow, Mommy Crow (II)


track: Crow, Mommy Crow (I)


track: Gables (I)


track: Missiou Batoneau

artist: Hanson DeMark, Unidentified

album: Dennery 7/62


track: Mwen Vlé Venté

artist: Harris DeMark, Unidentified


track: Waya, Waya, Waya Moulélé

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified man


track: Un Ti Cissau


track: Missy-la, Massa-la (II)

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified woman


track: Elvin, Elvina-o

artist: Philomene Estephane, Unidentified


track: Missy-la, Massa-la (I)


track: Mango Ti-n


track: Èlèna


track: Yun Ti Pwayé


track: Fiolé


track: J'ai Fait La Route Par Bois

artist: Richard Gustave, Unidentified


track: A Bwè, A Bwè


track: La Femme De Gouverneur

artist: Jean Pierre Horace, Unidentified


track: Interview with Jean Pierre Horrace about chanté abwè and Quand Le Roi Entrée A Paris

artist: Jean Pierre Horace, Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Quand Le Roi Entrée A Paris


track: Recitation of Bien Et Bonjour by Jean Pierre Horace (continued)

artist: Jean Pierre Horace, Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Belle-a Memoire


track: Bien Et Bonjour (I)


track: Bien Et Bonjour (II)


track: Recitation of Bien Et Bonjour by Jean Pierre Horace

artist: Jean Pierre Horace


track: Danga-we

artist: Walter Alexander, Allios Andrews, Cyril Balfour, Randolph Bonaparte, William Bonaparte, Mickey Davis, Paul Joseph, Peter Joseph, Emelda Moto, Egbert Quinton

album: Cumana 4/62


track: Introduction by Jean Pierre Horace


track: Interview with unidentified man about Danga-we

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Tiré, Tiré, Ça


track: Interview with Egbert Quinton about Tiré, Tiré, Ça

artist: Alan Lomax, Egbert Quinton


track: Tonight Is A Bongo Night

artist: Walter Alexander, Allios Andrews, Cyril Balfour, Randolph Bonaparte, William Bonaparte, Mickey Davis, Paul Joseph, Peter Joseph, Alan Lomax, Emelda Moto, Egbert Quinton


track: Interview with unidentified men about bongo songs

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified men


track: Tantie-O-Trago


track: Brother Boy, Come


track: Monokayo (II)


track: Monokayo (I)


track: Come, Baby, Come

artist: Stokley King, Willie Louis


track: Interview with Willie Louis about Mêmê and The Rain Is Falling Very Hard

artist: Alan Lomax, Willie Louis


track: The Rain Is Falling Very Hard


track: Mêmê


track: Interview with Willie Louis about his biography


track: Goodbye

artist: Anita Crawford, Edison Harrigan, Joseph Harrigan, Cyril Hodge, Ernest Hodge, James Hodge, Joseph Hodge, Lizabeth Hodge, Alan Lomax, Mary Vanterpool


track: No Place Like Home (fragment)

artist: Anita Crawford, Edison Harrigan, Joseph Harrigan, Cyril Hodge, Ernest Hodge, James Hodge, Joseph Hodge, Lizabeth Hodge, Mary Vanterpool


track: Sundown, I Goin' Home


track: Hombre


track: Interview with performers about work songs and jollification

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: We All Goin' Ashore


track: We All Goin' Ashore (false start)


track: Dip Down, Lower Down, Everybody


track: Malheureux Ouvier (I)

artist: Nicholson Alphonse, Unidentified men

album: La Plaine II 6/62


track: Bensa Sinavé


track: Bensa Sinavé (false start)


track: Henri-o (continued)


track: Ah, Ah Y Kwaze (I)


track: Henri-o


track: Ti Boy-o


track: Interview with Dixon Athanase and others about the text to Lamo Pa Dou

artist: Dixon Athanase, Alan Lomax, Unidentified men, Unidentified woman


track: Lamo Pa Dou (II)

artist: Dixon Athanase, Unidentified men


track: Lamo Pa Dou (I)

artist: Dixon Athanase


track: Moune Parle Francais


track: Di Yo Pa Hele Pou Nou

artist: Raphael Hurtault, Unidentified men


track: Ma Ti-oui No Ti Mama

artist: Unidentified men


track: Si kou li-o-o (II)

artist: Emerson Alphonse, Unidentified men


track: Talk/ambience


track: Si kou li-o-o (I)


artist: Unidentified


track: Balata Belle Bois


track: We Leno (II)


track: We Leno (I)


track: Dekouwe Bwa-la


track: Balata Belle Bois (false start)


track: Buenas Noches

artist: Christian Beaupierre, Renold Pascal, Peter Prosper, Hilton Sorhando, Benort Zavier


track: Mwen Pa Danse


track: Announcement of setting by Alan Lomax

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified woman


track: Ariyèl-o

artist: Michel Albert, Mandrie Baptiste, Isaline Gilbert, Modesse Huiet, Angelo John, Baptiste Joseph, Herbert Joseph, Lick Laronde, Alan Lomax, Renold Pascal, Belomie Prosper, Concetta Reid


track: Vent La Venté

artist: Michel Albert, Mandrie Baptiste, Isaline Gilbert, Modesse Huiet, Angelo John, Baptiste Joseph, Herbert Joseph, Lick Laronde, Renold Pascal, Belomie Prosper, Concetta Reid


track: Wake game / Gables

artist: Richard Albert, Patrick George, Raphael Hurtault, Angelo John, Renold Pascal, Belomie Prosper


track: Gables


track: Oloton Pepe

artist: Michel Albert, Modesse Ariet, Mandrie Baptiste, Patrick George, Angelo John, Renold Pascal, Victoria Prosper, Unidentified children, Camillia Williams


track: Madam De L?Oiseau

artist: Raphael Hurtault, Angelo John, Herbert John, Renold Pascal, Belomie Prosper, Unidentified


track: Fille-Mwen Valentin (continued)

artist: Michel Albert, Angelo John, Renold Pascal, Belomie Prosper, Unidentified


track: Fille-Mwen Valentin


track: Join This Food Campaign

artist: Herth Colaire, Ursula Landa, Ruthrie Phelbert, Bertina Vigilant, Boniface Vigilant


track: Cricket Lovely Cricket

artist: Carnarvie Domplive, Patrick George, Raphael Hurtault, Angelo John, Renold Pascal, Belomie Prosper


track: Interview with Christian Beaupierre about Annou Hele Houre

artist: Christian Beaupierre, Alan Lomax


track: Annou Hele Houre


track: Interview with Benort Zavier and others about song texts and instruments

artist: Christian Beaupierre, Alan Lomax, Renold Pascal, Peter Prosper, Hilton Sorhando, Benort Zavier


track: Erie Couche Y Parca Leve


track: Interview with Raphael Hurtault about We Leno Decoum Moins Sa Mande

artist: Raphael Hurtault, Alan Lomax


track: We Leno Decoum Moins Sa Mande

artist: Michel Albert, Michel Alphonse, Raphael Hurtault, Angelo John, Conrad Lestrade, Belomie Prosper, Benort Zavier


track: Interview with Benort Zavier about Pull Away Bully Boy

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified, Benort Zavier


track: Pull Away Bully Boy


track: La Riviere Roseau

artist: Michel Alphonse, Raphael Hurtault, Belomie Prosper, Benort Zavier


track: Interview with Raphael Hurtault about his biography and La Riviere Roseau


track: Interview with unidentified teacher about learning and teaching songs

album: La Plaine I 6/62


track: Home Sweet Home

artist: Unidentified children, Unidentified woman


track: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified children


track: Round And Round The Village


track: Recitation of Dis Solda La text

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified girl


track: Dis Solda La (III)


track: Dis Solda La (II)


track: Sikola Ola Vanni


track: Dis Solda La (I)


track: Tra La La Voumbé


track: Recitation of Tra La La Voumbé text


track: Down To The Carpet


track: One Elephant


track: Early In The Morning


track: Two White Horses


track: Bonjour Ma Cousine


track: My Boyfriend's Name Is Sambo


track: In A Fine Castle (II)


track: Interview with an unidentified girl about Bonjour Ma Cousine


track: In a Fine Castle (I)

artist: Unidentified children


track: Hurrah-lo, Put Me Ashore

artist: Banfield Andall, Claudius Andall, Claude Bartholomew, Alexis George, Edna Jeremiah, Joseph Jeremiah, Simpson Jeremiah, Euphemia Jones, Fitz Jones, Alstead McQueen, Alsten McQueen, Cleophus McQueen, Emmanuel Babsy McQueen, Irene McQueen, Lena McQueen, Samuel McQueen, Mary Mitchell, John Phillip, Lionel Scott

album: La Fortune 8/62


track: Who Gonna Cut De Tree


track: Roll, Roll, Roll, And Go (II)


track: Hurrah-lo, Put Me Ashore (false start)

artist: Banfield Andall, Claudius Andall, Claude Bartholomew, Alexis George, Edna Jeremiah, Joseph Jeremiah, Simpson Jeremiah, Euphemia Jones, Fitz Jones, Alan Lomax, Alstead McQueen, Alsten McQueen, Cleophus McQueen, Emmanuel Babsy McQueen, Irene McQueen, Lena McQueen, Samuel McQueen, Mary Mitchell, John Phillip, Lionel Scott


track: Interview with Simpson Jeremiah about fishermen?s wake songs (II)

artist: Simpson Jeremiah, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Simpson Jeremiah about fishermen?s wake songs (I)


track: Saladé (continued)


track: John Gone Away

artist: Banfield Andall, Claudius Andall, Claude Bartholomew, Alexis George, Edna Jeremiah, Joseph Jeremiah, Simpson Jeremiah, Euphemia Jones, Fitz Jones, Alstead McQueen, Alsten McQueen, Cleophus McQueen, Emmanuel Babsy McQueen, Irene McQueen, Lena McQueen, Samuel McQueen, Mary Mitchell, John Phillip, Lionel Scott, Unidentified


track: Interview with Fitz Jones about Saladé

artist: Fitz Jones, Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Saladé


track: Tana Quitté Passé Allé


track: You Know Tomorrow (Fire, Fire)


track: Lang-lang


track: The Mother With Bad Children


track: Ta Di Ma Roko Tin Bam


track: Katy-o (continued)


track: Katy-o


track: Mè Dè Ring Ding Do


track: Titi-rum, Titi-rum


track: Interview with Fitz Jones about Titi-rum, Titi-rum


track: Sleep Baby Sleep, Angel Out For You

artist: Daphne Jeremiah


track: There's No One To Lay Mercy On Me

artist: Irene McQueen


track: No, No, Mylon

artist: Jocelyn Jeremiah, Antoinette Marchand


track: Interview with Irene McQueen about Do Do Pitite Popo

artist: Antoinette Marchand, Irene McQueen


track: Interview with Irene McQueen about Anto-gwé-gwé-no


track: Anto-gwé-gwé-no


track: Do Do Pitite Popo


track: Little Baby Cryin'


track: Rockin' My Baby To Sleep

artist: Edna Jeremiah


track: Interview with Irene McQueen about carnival (songs, costumes, characters, stick fighting)

artist: Alan Lomax, Irene McQueen, Unidentified


track: Carnival song

artist: Claudius Andall, George Claude, Alexis George, Simpson Jeremiah, Irene McQueen, Unidentified


track: Who Could Bury The Dead


track: Interview with Claudius Andall about carnival songs and confrontations

artist: Claudius Andall, Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Roule, Roule


track: Under The Rama We Want To Go


track: Interview with Fitz Jones about the text to Ping Pang


track: Ping Pang


track: Interview with Fitz Jones about the text to Sound Me Doctor, Sound Me


track: Sound Me Doctor, Sound Me


track: Interview with Fitz Jones about maroon (cooperative labor) (II)

artist: Fitz Jones, Alan Lomax


track: We No Working No Way In De Islan'


track: Interview with Fitz Jones about maroon (cooperative labor) (I)

artist: Fitz Jones, Alan Lomax, Antoinette Marchand, Unidentified


track: Jean Jean-o (II)


track: Interview with Fitz Jones about Jean Jean-o


track: Jean Jean-o (I)


track: Roll, Roll, Roll And Go (I)


track: Oh Ma, Where Estelle?


track: Hey Tana, Who Gonna Marry, Go Tana

artist: Alstead McQueen, Unidentified woman


track: Lemme Go My Jumby

artist: Alstead McQueen


track: Madame Hiding In The Garden


track: Unidentified work song

artist: Daniel Alexander, Theophilus Daisy, Sonny Francis, Saville Greenridge, Norman Miller

album: La Filette 8/62


track: Compère Lapin

artist: Daniel Alexander, Theophilus Daisy


track: Zinin And The Butter


track: The Baboon And The Goat


track: Compère Zinin


track: La Grenada Nou Lèvé


track: Interview with Daniel Alexander and Theophilus Daisy about La Grenada Nou Lèvé

artist: Daniel Alexander, Theophilus Daisy, Alan Lomax


track: Tend-mwen-la (continued)


track: Interview with Daniel Alexander and Theophilus Daisy about work songs


track: Tend-mwen-la


track: Interview with Daniel Alexander and Theophilus Daisy about Kango and maroons (cooperative labor)


track: Kango


track: Lamizè


track: In My Own Native Land


track: Way-o, Way-o


track: Fare You Well, Captain, Give The Men A Blow

artist: Daniel Alexander, Theophilus Daisy, Hatton Felix, Sonny Francis, Saville Greenridge, Norman Miller, Ralph Mitchell


track: Interview with unidentified man about cocoa cultivation and preparation

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Going Away


track: Hilo Boys, Hilo


track: Interview with May Fortune about the Saraca

artist: May Fortune, Alan Lomax

album: L'Esterre 8/62


track: C?est Mwe, Nani Moko

artist: Ferguson (Sugar Tamarind) Adams, Daniel Aikens, Pashin Andrew, Charles Bristol, May Fortune, Mannie James, Caddy Lazarus John, Glassin John, Jemina Joseph, Jennifer Joseph, Maximum Joseph, Newton Joseph, Willie Joseph, Beatrice Lazarus, Tida Lazarus, John Russel, Unidentified


track: Interview with May Fortune about C?est Mwe, Nani Moko


track: Maria L?abbe


track: Arada, Arada, Dara-mi Day


track: Interview with May Fortune about Maria L?abbe


track: Djerika-o


track: Interview with May Fortune about Djerika-o


track: Sesé Ani-o


track: Lazar, Ai, Lazar


track: Lora, You No Married


track: Interview with May Fortune about Lazar, Ai, Lazar


track: Interview with May Fortune about Banda Call Me-o


track: Banda Call Me-o


track: Ai, Salli Hunde


track: Amba Pied Mango


track: Anansi Cudjo


track: Talk/ambience

artist: May Fortune, Unidentified


track: Show Me The Road


track: Interview with May Fortune about Oko

artist: May Fortune, Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Oko


track: Amba, Dabia-e


track: Amba, Dabia-e (fragment)


track: Igbo Ginade-o (II)


track: Interview with a performer about Iama Diama Igbo-lé-lé

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Iama Diama Igbo-lé-lé


track: Interview with unidentified men about Mwe Rivé, Joe Talmana

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified men


track: Mwe Rivé, Joe Talmana


track: M'allé Marié Un Fois


track: Amway, Beke, Mwe Ba Connet


track: Interview with Willie Joseph about M'allé Marié Un Fois

artist: Willie Joseph, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Jemina Joseph about Amway, Beke, Mwe Ba Connet

artist: Jemina Joseph, Alan Lomax


track: Jenuno Abadino


track: Interview with unidentified man about Jenuno Abadino


track: Tibite Gounde


track: Interview with unidentified man about Tibite Gounde


track: Madame Kistan


track: Interview with May Fortune about Madame Kistan


track: Interview with John Russell about the text to Temps-la Ka Roule

artist: Alan Lomax, John Russel


track: Temps-la Ka Roule


track: Jimmy Lunday


track: Interview with unidentified woman about the text to Jimmy Lunday

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified woman


track: Oi-yo, Temne, Cumani


track: Interview with Jennifer Joseph and Newton Joseph about the Big Drum ritual

artist: Jennifer Joseph, Newton Joseph, Alan Lomax


track: Hausa Wele

artist: Ferguson (Sugar Tamarind) Adams, Daniel Aikens, Pashin Andrew, Charles Bristol, May Fortune, Mannie James, Caddy Lazarus John, Glassin John, Jemina Joseph, Jennifer Joseph, Maximum Joseph, Newton Joseph, Willie Joseph, Beatrice Lazarus, Tida Lazarus, John Russel


track: Interview with May Fortune about Hausa Wele


track: Igbo Ginade-o (I)


track: Ovid-o, Pa Garde


track: Interview with May Fortune about Igbo Ginade-o and Scotch Ibo


track: Interview with May Fortune about Ovid-o, Pa Garde


track: Interview with Mannie James about Dondon Banane

artist: Mannie James, Alan Lomax


track: Dondon Banane (with Lomax commentary)


track: Tim Bwai-o


track: Interview with unidentified performers about Courant Mèné Allé

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified man, Unidentified woman


track: Courant Mèné Allé (with interview)


track: Nu Sa Webe Nu


track: Anancy-o, Sari Baba (with interview and Lomax commentary)

artist: Ferguson (Sugar Tamarind) Adams, Daniel Aikens, Pashin Andrew, Charles Bristol, May Fortune, Mannie James, Caddy Lazarus John, Glassin John, Jemina Joseph, Jennifer Joseph, Maximum Joseph, Newton Joseph, Willie Joseph, Beatrice Lazarus, Tida Lazarus, Alan Lomax, John Russel, Unidentified, Unidentified man


track: Interview with Jemina Joseph about Anancy-o, Sari Baba


track: Commentary by Alan Lomax on the Big Drum


track: Cromanti Codjo


track: Interview with a performer about Cromanti Codjo


track: Interview with Maximum Joseph about tombstone feast (continued) / Madame Gila-o

artist: Ferguson (Sugar Tamarind) Adams, Daniel Aikens, Pashin Andrew, Charles Bristol, May Fortune, Mannie James, Caddy Lazarus John, Glassin John, Jemina Joseph, Jennifer Joseph, Maximum Joseph, Newton Joseph, Willie Joseph, Beatrice Lazarus, Tida Lazarus, Alan Lomax, John Russel, Unidentified


track: Interview with Maximum Joseph about tombstone feast

artist: Maximum Joseph, Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Interview with a performer about Timi, Timi, Zewon

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified, Unidentified man

album: L'Esterre 7/62


track: Timi, Timi, Zewon (continued)

artist: Willie Alexander, Sonnel Allert, Clyde Anjou, Charles Bristol, Canute Caliste, Lenus George, Conrad Joseph, Gorine Joseph, Kingston Joseph, Matteson Joseph, Newton Joseph, Sidney Joseph, Avoide Sylvester


track: Timi, Timi, Zewon


track: Mbadi-o, Dem Dei-o


track: Le Pwezon Didan La Me

artist: Charles Bristol, Unidentified men


track: Tombeau, Tombeau

artist: Newton Joseph, Unidentified men


track: Jodi Samdi


track: Breakaway (II)

artist: Willie Alexander, Sonnel Allert, Canute Caliste, Gorine Joseph, Alan Lomax


track: Breakaway (I)


track: Six Figure Quadrille II: Fifth Figure


track: Talk/ambience


track: Six Figure Quadrille II: Fourth Figure

artist: Willie Alexander, Sonnel Allert, Canute Caliste, Gorine Joseph


track: Six Figure Quadrille II: Third Figure


track: Six Figure Quadrille II: Second Figure


track: Six Figure Quadrille II: First Figure


track: Six Figure Quadrille: Sixth Figure


track: Six Figure Quadrille I: Fifth Figure


track: Six Figure Quadrille I: Fourth Figure


track: Six Figure Quadrille I: Second Figure


track: Six Figure Quadrille I: Third Figure


track: Roll My Riley


track: Six Figure Quadrille I: First Figure


track: Long Time Ago (Caesar Boys)


track: Ride 'Em Trinidad (II)


track: Rosibella (II)

artist: Willie Alexander, Sonnel Allert, Clyde Anjou, Charles Bristol, Canute Caliste, Lenus George, Conrad Joseph, Gorine Joseph, Kingston Joseph, Matteson Joseph, Newton Joseph, Sidney Joseph, Alan Lomax, Avoide Sylvester


track: Rosibella (I)


track: Ring Down Below


track: Yard-o, Yard-o (II)


track: Shiloh, Boys, Shiloh


track: Yard-o, Yard-o (I)


track: Roseanna


track: Steamboat Due Tomorrow


track: Gens Mwen


track: Hi Lo Boys


track: Yankee John


track: Ride 'Em Trinidad (I)


track: Good Morning

artist: Alvin Prentice, Joseph Reid, George Sweeney, Selwyn Wathey

album: Irishtown 7/62


track: Bull Dog Goin' Bite Me


track: Peas And Rice


track: Irena

artist: Eldred Decent, Joseph Reid, Unidentified, Selwyn Wathey


track: Rag Time

artist: Eldred Decent, Alan Lomax, Joseph Reid, Unidentified, Selwyn Wathey


track: Boilolo (II)


track: Boilolo (I)

artist: Eldred Decent, Alan Lomax, Joseph Reid, Selwyn Wathey


track: One, Two, Three, Young And Old

artist: Eldred Decent, Joseph Reid, Selwyn Wathey


track: Pepper Sauce


track: Tiger Jazz


track: Marianne


track: The Jumbie Dance


track: The Whole World In Trouble-o

artist: Reverend A. Dickson, Ebenezer Elliot, Unidentified

album: Indian Walk 5/62


track: Tell Me Lord When I Go Home


track: Request for song by Alan Lomax

artist: Reverend A. Dickson, Ebenezer Elliot, Alan Lomax


track: Come Down Angel Trouble The Water


track: Want To Go To The Happy Land


track: Somebody Touched My Soul


track: We Are Climbing Up Mt. Zion


track: Hallelujah How I Love Him


track: Closing prayer / Doxology / Benediction


track: The Day Of Praise Is Done


track: Communion and singing


track: Communion prayer


track: Jesus We Thus Obey


track: Prayer and hymn singing


track: How Sweet The Name Of Jesus Sounds


track: Prayer


track: Sermon


track: Interview with Wilfred Redhead and Sugar Adams about Carriacou's African nations

artist: Ferguson (Sugar Tamarind) Adams, Alan Lomax, Wilfred Redhead

album: Hillsborough 8/62


track: Terre Mwen En Tambou-a

artist: Unidentified

album: Gros Islet 7/62


track: Y Té Ni Un Mana Cochon

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified woman


track: Solange-o

artist: Unidentified woman


track: Interview with unidentified woman about Solise-o

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified woman


track: Émmanue-o (I)


track: Émmanue-o (II)


track: Wo, Wo, Lagé Mwen, Jour-a La Ouvert


track: Belle Bagaille


track: Wo, Wo, Lagé Mwen, Jour-a La Ouvert (false start)


track: Sionlle, Volé


track: Un Roseau Mwen Lévé


track: Un Ti Mamay (II)

artist: Unidentified man


track: Dodo Iche Mwen, Dodo


track: Tout Ti Mamay


track: Un Ti Mamay (I)


track: L'enfant Qui Pas Ni Mama, Malhèrè

artist: Annie Charles, Unidentified


track: Un Ti Pied Poirier (II)


track: Un Ti Pied Poirier (I)


track: Oyé La Mouelle


track: Talk/ambience


track: Mwen Morti En Cuba


track: Gibier, Pas Mangé Figue Carata Mwen Encore


track: Y Dit, Marie-o (II)


track: Y Dit, Marie-o (I)


track: Mwen Pa (continued)


track: Chanté, La Rossingol

artist: Fanfan Finisterre, McLean


track: Jeune Fille-a-é, Ba Prend N'homme Mariér

artist: Eli Britton, Cornelius Duncan, Ralph George, Jean Glaud, Adolphus Henry, St. Bernard Joseph, Michael Marishow, Oliver Mims, Gold Sylvester, Unidentified

album: Gouyave 8/62


track: Interview with Ralph George about Jeune Fille-a-é, Ba Prend N'homme Mariér

artist: Ralph George, Alan Lomax


track: Etienne

artist: Florent Baratini, Raoul Grivalliers, Unidentified

album: Sainte-Marie I 6/62


track: Léonar-O Plan-O


track: Èvra


track: Ipaup-a-raup-paup, On My Shoulder

artist: Norris Welsh

album: Saint George's 8/62


track: My Love I Lost, Find Her, Away She Go


track: John, Marry-o, We Goin' Marry Tonight


track: One, Two, Three, Heel And Toe


track: Cassiènne


track: I Love You Evermore


track: Interview with Eric Gelliseaux about Come Along Darling

artist: Eric Gelliseaux, Alan Lomax

album: Roseau II 7/62


track: Come Along Darling

artist: Eric Gelliseaux


track: Interview with Eric Gelliseaux about Si Un Jeune Gens Ka Travaillé


track: Si Un Jeune Gens Ka Travaillé


track: The Language Of The Animals (continued)

artist: Jean Pierre Horace, Unidentified man

album: Roseau I 7/62


track: The Language Of The Animals

artist: Jean Pierre Horace, Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Se Mwen Qui Gélé

artist: Derrick C. Lewis, Vitalis Pierre, Boy Ramine


track: Interview with Everard DeJean about song texts (continued) (III)

artist: Everard DeJean, Alan Lomax

album: Roseau 6/62


track: Interview with Everard DeJean about song texts (continued) (I)


track: Interview with Everard DeJean about song texts (continued) (II)


track: Interview with Everard DeJean about song texts


track: Congo-o À Nou 'Allé

artist: Oliver Andrew, Cecil Austrie, Everard DeJean, Augustus Edward, Raymond Giraudel


track: No More Love For You Again (II)


track: We-bé-belle Dyab


track: Congo-o À Nou 'Allé (false start) (III)


track: Congo-o À Nou 'Allé (false start) (II)


track: MI Misère (II)


track: Congo-o À Nou 'Allé (false start) (I)


track: MI Misère (I)


track: Cuckoo Waltz (Mockingbird Hill melody)


track: The Lancers (part VI) (continued)


track: The Lancers (part VI)


track: The Lancers (part V)


track: Request for a tune by Alan Lomax

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: The Lancers (part IV)


track: The Lancers (part II)


track: The Lancers (part III)


track: Don't Blame Me, She Invite Me To A River To Swim / The Dolphin


track: The Lancers (part I)


track: Interview with Everard DeJean about Don't Blame Me, She Invite Me To A River To Swim

artist: Everard DeJean, Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Mama Mwen, Ba Mwen Youn Habitude


track: Quadrille set (III)


track: Interview with Everard DeJean about performance context


track: Interview with Everard DeJean and others about quadrille sets (with demonstration)

artist: Oliver Andrew, Cecil Austrie, Everard DeJean, Augustus Edward, Raymond Giraudel, Alan Lomax


track: Quadrille set (II)


track: Quadrille set (I)


track: Naille, Naille


track: No More Love For You Again (I)


track: Announcement by Worsley Baptiste, Secretary of the Village Council

artist: Worsley Baptiste

album: Rampanalgas 5/62


track: Johnny Who Was Sold To The Sea

artist: Reginald Malcolm, Unidentified


track: Story of the Golden Tree

artist: Louis Skinner, Unidentified


track: People Shouldn't Mind Other People's Business

artist: Rawlingson Hector, Unidentified


track: Introduction / Somebody Go Dead Today

artist: Rawlingson Hector, Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Alan Lomax, Louis Skinner


track: Introduction / Da Ming Gal

artist: Mary Williams


track: Interview / Parrot Song

artist: Alan Lomax, Mary Williams


track: Yankee / Interview with Mary Williams

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified man, Mary Williams


track: Sargeant, Give Me The Day Off Today


track: Introduction / Old Peas And Rice


track: Diana Hey, Diana Ho

artist: Peter Campbell, Unidentified


track: Call Ellen For Me


track: Interview with Rawlingson Hector about Call Ellen For Me

artist: Rawlingson Hector, Alan Lomax


track: Hold Him Tarter / Commentary on Hold Him Tarter by Alan Lomax

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Interview with performers about Hold Him Tarter


artist: Unidentified


track: How The Gavilon Managed To Take The Fowl

artist: Albert Jarvis, Unidentified


track: Interview with Albert Jarvis about How The Gavilon Managed To Take The Fowl

artist: Albert Jarvis, Alan Lomax


track: Mamselle Marie Marry The Gal One Time (continued)


track: Mamselle Marie Marry The Gal One Time


track: I Want a Little Woman


track: Miss Eliza Jane / Dit-o Ça


track: Man Doin' Swell (II)

artist: Rawlingson Hector, Unidentified men


track: Man Doin' Swell (I)


track: Interview with Rawlingson Hector about Fine Play

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Ring Down the Road, Goliah

artist: Angela Jarvis, Unidentified men, Mary Williams


track: Fine Play

artist: Manuel Barrington, Rawlingson Hector, Unidentified


track: Pass, Manivell Passé (I)


track: Pass, Manivell Passé (II)


track: Tombe, Lèvé, Sam Bito


track: Coolie Pas Ça Bandé


track: Lord I Will Own Thy Tender Care

artist: Angela Jarvis, Unidentified, Mary Williams


track: Lie-o, Elio

artist: Rawlingson Hector, Unidentified


track: Lord I Will Own Thy Tender Care (false start)


track: Good Friends Not Good Friends No More

artist: Cephus Louis


track: Interview with Cephus Louis about Good Friends Not Good Friends No More

artist: Alan Lomax, Cephus Louis, Antoinette Marchand


track: Jig Baby Jig


track: Interview with Cephus Louis about Married You Never Go See


track: Married You Never Go See


track: Interview with Cephus Louis about No Tell Me You Go Home

artist: Alan Lomax, Cephus Louis


track: No Tell Me You Go Home


track: Interview with Cephus Louis about Johnny Give Me a Poor Gut Baby and marriage


track: Interview with Cephus Louis about June Come You No Marry


track: Johnny Give Me A Poor Gut Baby


track: Ah Yo Moin K' Allé

artist: Thomasine Affet, Sylvia Baptiste, Mickey Bentic, Edward Goddard, George Julian, Alexander Matthew, Gloria Mendez, Avien Morris, Antoinette Navarro, Joseph Noel, Amy Patrick, Yvonne Perez, Angela Phillip, Umilta Sladden

album: Radix Village 5/62


track: Oh Marianna / A Nous Monte C'est Vrais


track: June Come You No Marry


track: Drums: Cabinet

artist: George Julian, Alexander Matthew, Joseph Noel


track: Drums: Piquet


track: Drums: Bélè


track: Femme Le Dit Moin Pour Dormir La Caille-li


track: Drums: Marico (Mariceau)


track: Where You Were Last Night Millicent?


track: Ah Yo Moin Vlé Volé


track: Illo Monté Que 'Way?


track: Marie-o


track: Brillé La Georgina


track: Fire Where You Bran Dayliso

artist: Francis Carton, Sam Emmanuel, Thomas John, Elma Stewart

album: Port-of-Spain II 4/62


track: O Karanga Day


track: Ai Landay La Dayway


track: O Me Worro Worro


track: Haitian Avalo (III)


track: Haitian Avalo (II)


track: Haitian Avalo (I)


track: Myra Gal Where You Bin Last Night


track: Interview with a performer about Myra Gal Where You Bin Last Night


track: Interview with a performer about biographical information and Mandigo-o Ca Veni Wé


track: Mandigo-o Ca Veni Wé


track: Sunshine

album: Port-of-Spain I 4/62


track: Bury Boula For Me

artist: Eugene Brito, Ralph Charles, Robert Charles, Paul Gervais, Neville (Growling Tiger) Marcano, Samuel Mira, Vivian Moses, Randolph Phipps, Emmanuel Williams

album: Port-of-Spain 8/62


track: When I Dead Bury Me Clothes


track: Castilian

artist: Robert Charles, Paul Gervais, Vivian Moses, Randolph Phipps


track: Money Is King

artist: Eugene Brito, Ralph Charles, Robert Charles, Paul Gervais, Alan Lomax, Neville (Growling Tiger) Marcano, Samuel Mira, Vivian Moses, Randolph Phipps, Emmanuel Williams


track: War (II)

artist: Eugene Brito, Ralph Charles, Robert Charles, Paul Gervais, Robert (Indian Prince) Haytasingh, Neville (Growling Tiger) Marcano, Samuel Mira, Vivian Moses, Randolph Phipps, Randolph (Lord Iere) Thomas, Emmanuel Williams


track: War (I) (with introduction)

artist: Eugene Brito, Ralph Charles, Robert Charles, Paul Gervais, Neville (Growling Tiger) Marcano, Samuel Mira, Vivian Moses, Randolph Phipps, Randolph (Lord Iere) Thomas, Emmanuel Williams


track: Señorita Panchita (VI)

artist: Eugene Brito, Ralph Charles, Robert Charles, Paul Gervais, Neville (Growling Tiger) Marcano, Samuel Mira, Vivian Moses, Randolph Phipps, Unidentified, Emmanuel Williams


track: The Parrot (II)


track: The Parrot (I)


track: The Train Blow (II)

artist: Eugene Brito, Ralph Charles, Robert Charles, Paul Gervais, Neville (Growling Tiger) Marcano, Samuel Mira, Vivian Moses, Randolph Phipps, Edna (Lady Iere) Pierre, Emmanuel Williams


track: The Train Blow (I)


track: Señorita Panchita (V)


track: Señorita Panchita (III)


track: Señorita Panchita (II)


track: Señorita Panchita (IV)


track: Señorita Panchita (I)


track: Drumming (IX)

artist: Hammed Ahlee, Michael Harrilad, Norris Mohamed, Edward Sourage, Harry Williams

album: Port of Spain 6/62


track: Drumming (VIII) (Easter Passage) / Commentary by Alan Lomax

artist: Hammed Ahlee, Michael Harrilad, Alan Lomax, Norris Mohamed, Edward Sourage, Harry Williams


track: Drumming (VII)


track: Drumming (VI)


track: Drumming (V) / Commentary by Alan Lomax


track: Drumming (IV)


track: Drumming (III) / Commentary by Alan Lomax


track: Drumming (II)


track: Interview with performers about the Hosein group


track: Drumming (I)


track: Hosein drumming, scenes III and IV

artist: Hammed Ahlee, Michael Harrilad, Alan Lomax, Norris Mohamed, Edward Sourage, Unidentified woman, Harry Williams


track: Hosein drumming, scene II


track: Hosein drumming, scene I

artist: Hammed Ahlee, Michael Harrilad, Norris Mohamed, Edward Sourage, Unidentified woman, Harry Williams


track: Tom Gone Away (II)

artist: Otto Alsopp, Sylvester Anthony, Alva Christopher, Lennox George, Christopher Lemessy, Alva Morris, Joseph Noel, Hendrickson Olfonso, Mathew Thomas, Wing, Patrick Zoe

album: Plaisance 4/62


track: Miss Nancy Oh


track: Juliana


track: And Away, Ah Ah


track: O Eliza (II)


track: Interview with performers about O Eliza

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified men


track: Tom Gone Away (I)


track: O Eliza (I)


track: Israel On The Road, He Coming


track: How Long We Go Wait For Stickman


track: Regimen Mwen De Leon


track: Is Time For War This Hour


track: Fire Brigade Water The Road


track: Interview with Matthew Thomas about the history of kalenda

artist: Jacob Delworth (J. D.) Elder, Mathew Thomas


track: Feddie Come Go Kangawood


track: Wy Wy Wy Ding Ding Oh


track: Interview with performerabout kalenda performance

artist: Jacob Delworth (J. D.) Elder, Unidentified man


track: Interview with Matthew Thomas about his biography and kalenda performance


track: Sewe Wangala


track: Interview with Ralph Mitchell, George Hill, and Daniel Alexander about Moro, Moro and their biographies

artist: Daniel Alexander, George Hille, Alan Lomax, Ralph Mitchell

album: Petit Bacaye 8/62


track: Moro, Moro

artist: Daniel Alexander, George Hille, Ralph Mitchell, Unidentified


track: Papa John


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Commentary by Antoinette Marchand on the chicken game (III)

artist: Antoinette Marchand, Unidentified


track: Tu Li Mouillé, Blackbird


track: Commentary by Antoinette Marchand on the chicken game (II)


track: I Believe In You (with commentary by Antoinette Marchand)

artist: George Hille, Antoinette Marchand, Ralph Mitchell, Unidentified


track: Blindfolding the chicken (with commentary by Antoinette Marchand)

artist: Alan Lomax, Antoinette Marchand, Unidentified


track: Commentary by Antoinette Marchand on the chicken game (I)

artist: Antoinette Marchand


track: Lundi-Mardi

artist: George Hille, Ralph Mitchell


track: Interview with performers about the chicken game and Lundi-Mardi

artist: George Hille, Alan Lomax, Antoinette Marchand, Ralph Mitchell


track: Interview with Toolsie Bridgelal about khajri performance and biography

artist: Toolsie Bridgelal, Alan Lomax

album: Penal 5/62


track: Khajri (II)

artist: Toolsie Bridgelal, Unidentified man


track: Interview with performers about chowtal performance

artist: Alan Lomax, Raghoonath Ramdass, Unidentified men


track: Chowtal (II)

artist: Ramnarine Bholai, Ramroop Bholai, Sitaram Bholai, Ramnanan Boochoon, Heeralal Boodhai, Gowkaren, Bhola Hansa, Ramnath Harripersad, Bisnath Jhingoo, Phoolchan Koongbeharry, Pandit Benny Madho, Mohase Mahabir, Dindial Maharaj, Kisoon Maharaj, Ratanlal Manbodh, Raghoonath Ramdass, Ramnath Ramdass, Seebalack, Unidentified


track: Sohar (II) (continued)

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified woman


track: Interview with unidentified performer

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified woman


track: Sohar (II)

artist: Unidentified, Unidentified women


track: Interview with performers about history and performance of sohar

artist: Jacob Delworth (J. D.) Elder, Alan Lomax, Unidentified woman


track: Julo Julo Khanhai Y A Palana (I)

artist: Unidentified women


track: Interview with performers about instrumental practice and technique

artist: Jacob Delworth (J. D.) Elder, Alan Lomax, Unidentified men


track: Julo Julo Khanhai Y A Palana (II)

artist: Unidentified woman


track: Dadra

artist: Ramnanan Lokhai, Dindial Maharaj, Ramdial, Samaroo , Jankie Sampah, Seebalack


track: Holi (II)


track: Thumri (II)

artist: Seebalack, Unidentified


track: Interview with a performer about transmission processes

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Interview with a performer about stick dance


track: Stick dance

artist: Sookdeo Ram Krishna, Unidentified men


track: Tumhara Bansie

artist: Heeralal Boodhai, Sookdeo Ram Krishna, Ramnanan Lokhai, Ramdial, Samaroo , Haripersad Sampath, Seebalack, Ramlakhan Surjan


track: Khajri

artist: Kisoon Maharaj, Unidentified


track: Tumhara Bansie (false start)

artist: Unidentified


track: Holi (I)

artist: Heeralal Boodhai, Ramnanan Lokhai, Dindial Maharaj, Ramdial, Samaroo , Seebalack


track: Khajri (false start)

artist: Kisoon Maharaj


track: Ghazal

artist: Heeralal Boodhai, Ramnanan Lokhai, Pandit Benny Madho, Ramdial, Samaroo , Seebalack


track: Thumri (I)

artist: Heeralal Boodhai, Ramnanan Lokhai, Ramdial, Samaroo , Seebalack


track: Interview with Dindial Maharaj about thumri performance practice

artist: Alan Lomax, Dindial Maharaj


track: Interview with a performer about chowtal performance


track: Chowtal (I)

artist: Ramnarine Bholai, Ramroop Bholai, Sitaram Bholai, Ramnanan Boochoon, Heeralal Boodhai, Gowkaren, Bhola Hansa, Ramnath Harripersad, Bisnath Jhingoo, Phoolchan Koongbeharry, Pandit Benny Madho, Mohase Mahabir, Dindial Maharaj, Kisoon Maharaj, Ratanlal Manbodh, Raghoonath Ramdass, Ramnath Ramdass, Seebalack, Unidentified


track: Introduction by Phoolchan Koongbeharry about chaupai performance

artist: Phoolchan Koongbeharry


track: Interview with Phoolchan Koongbeharry about Ramayana Chowpaie (Chaupai)

artist: Phoolchan Koongbeharry, Alan Lomax


track: Ramayana Chowpaie (Chaupai)

artist: Phoolchan Koongbeharry, Unidentified


track: Me Not Able-o, Dandy Lover

artist: Emelda Cruickshank, Unidentified

album: Pembroke 8/62


track: Ye, Mama, Salt Water, Give Me Some


track: Interview with Emelda Cruickshank about Train-a Descend Cologne

artist: Emelda Cruickshank, Alan Lomax, Unidentified men


track: Alan Lomax requests another Congo tune

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Train-a Descend Cologne


track: Balance With Elize-o

artist: Henrietta Cape, Emelda Cruickshank, Unidentified


track: Ay-ay-ay


track: Hush Up The Baby (false start)

artist: Margaret Cruickshank, Alan Lomax


track: Hush Up The Baby


track: Kongo rhythm demonstration (continued)

artist: Cyrenes Cape, Henrietta Cape, Cecil McQueen, Unidentified


track: Hush Up The Baby (with interview)


track: Bye Baby Bunting

artist: Margaret Cruickshank


track: The Piquet


track: Kongo rhythm demonstration

artist: Cyrenes Cape, Henrietta Cape, Cecil McQueen


track: Hear The Drums A-Rollin'

artist: Cyrenes Cape, Henrietta Cape, Emelda Cruickshank, Cecil McQueen, Unidentified


track: Let Her Go To Canada


track: Queen Peggy-o (continued)

artist: Cyrenes Cape, Henrietta Cape, Emelda Cruickshank, Unidentified


track: Interview with Emelda Cruickshank and Henrietta Cape about Queen Peggy-o

artist: Henrietta Cape, Emelda Cruickshank, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Emelda Cruickshank and Henrietta Cape about percussion instruments / Queen Peggy-o (fragment)

artist: Cyrenes Cape, Henrietta Cape, Emelda Cruickshank, Alan Lomax


track: Ta-la-lie-lé-o


track: Brer Anansi And Brer Lion

artist: Emelda Cruickshank


track: Two Sisters (A Man With A Black And A Clear Child)


track: Anansi And The Yams


track: Island Day

artist: Albert Cruickshank, Unidentified girls


track: Interview with Ivan Houston about Blow, Boys, Blow, Boys and work songs

artist: Ivan Houston, Alan Lomax


track: Blow, Boys, Blow, Boys

artist: Ivan Houston, Unidentified


track: La-o-djè-dè, Bongo-la


track: Angelina


track: Tomorrow A Grand Funeral


track: Charley Peeping At Me


track: Interview with Ivan Houston about The Maypole Goin' Away


track: The Maypole Goin' Away


track: Ya No Bodder Me

artist: Emelda Cruickshank, Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Leave It So

artist: Emelda Cruickshank, Ivan Houston, Unidentified


track: Interview with Emelda Cruickshank about Ya No Bodder Me

artist: Emelda Cruickshank, Alan Lomax


track: A Long Time Ago

artist: Margaret Cruickshank, Unidentified girls


track: Interview with Margaret Cruickshank about A Long Time Ago


track: Poco, Le' Me 'Lone (II)


track: Poco, Le' Me 'Lone (I)


track: Miss Lucy Has Some Fine Young Ladies


track: Who Stole The Cookie (II)


track: Interview with unidentified man about Hindu philosophy and social practices in the Indo-Trinidadian community

artist: Alan Lomax, Antoinette Marchand, Unidentified man

album: Pasea Village 5/62


track: Who Stole The Cookie (I)

artist: Margaret Cruickshank, Alan Lomax, Unidentified girls


track: In A Fine Castle (fragment)


track: Interview with Moonsamy about bhajan

artist: Alan Lomax, Antoinette Marchand, Moonsamy, Unidentified man


track: Interview with Moonsamy about Tiln Linge (II)

artist: Antoinette Marchand, Moonsamy, Unidentified man


track: Bhajan (II) (false start)


track: Interview with Moonsamy about Bhajan Pandus


track: Interview with Moonsamy about Tiln Linge (I)


track: Unidentified Madrasi song

artist: Moonsamy


track: Interview with Moonsamy about his biography


track: Work song (IV)


track: Interview with Moonsamy about his biography and work songs


track: Work song (III)


track: Work song (II)


track: Lullaby

artist: Mrs. Afrose Mohammed, Bully Naran, Harry Naran, K. B. Singh


track: Bhajan (I)

artist: Bully Naran, Harry Naran, Shakuniala Sankan, K. B. Singh, Unidentified


track: Interview with Mrs. Afrose Mohammed about lullaby

artist: Alan Lomax, Mrs. Afrose Mohammed


track: Thumri

artist: Bully Naran, Harry Naran, K. B. Singh, Unidentified


track: Olara


track: Caburna

artist: Rambarran Harry Bans, Barran Datto, Ramdhan Maharaj, Bal Moonsamy, Bharrat Moonsamy, Chattergoon Moonsamy, B. Harry (Jack) Paul, K. B. Singh


track: Sada-han


track: Nabi Sarbat


track: Dhunput


track: Kalenda drums


track: Houri


track: Tilawa


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Unidentified


track: Dingolay


track: Steel band drums


track: Nagara


track: Interview with performers about drumming technique and wedding song text

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified men


track: Wedding drums (II)


track: Wedding drums (I)


track: Flirtation Dance

artist: Christopher Conner, Unidentified women

album: South Hill Village 7/62


track: Interview with Conrad James and Isaiah Augustin about quadrille texts

artist: Conrad James, Alan Lomax, Unidentified men

album: Six Roads 8/62


track: Reel Engagé (II) / Wila-wila-mena (II)

artist: Isaiah Augustin, Conrad James, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Conrad James and Isaiah Augustin about performance genres


track: Charlotte-o (II)

artist: Conrad James, Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Charlotte-o (I)

artist: Isaiah Augustin, Bodo, Conrad James, Anderson Wells


track: Reel Engagé (I)


track: Interview with Anderson Wells about his biography

artist: Alan Lomax, Anderson Wells


track: Wila-wila-mena (I)


track: Interview with Conrad James about Wila-wila--mena

artist: Conrad James, Alan Lomax


track: Grand Bay Late Last Night


track: Interview with Conrad James about Grand Bay Late Last Night, his biography, and fiddle tuning


track: Breakaway


track: Interview with Isaiah Augustin about his band, performance, and repertoire

artist: Isaiah Augustin, Alan Lomax


track: Interview with Jennifer and Newton Joseph about Big Drum dances, sailor songs, and their biographies

artist: Jennifer Joseph, Newton Joseph, Alan Lomax, Unidentified man

album: Six Roads 7/62


track: Unidentified Cuban tune


track: Interview with Newton Joseph about sailor songs

artist: Newton Joseph, Alan Lomax, Unidentified


track: Interview with Jennifer and Newton Joseph about Big Drum dance preparations and their biographies


track: Long Time Ago (Caesar Boys)

artist: Newton Joseph, Alan Lomax


track: Hymn to St. Pierre

artist: Jim Gervais, Richard Gervais, Frederick James, Unidentified

album: Scotts Head 6/62


track: Hi Lo Boys

artist: Newton Joseph, Unidentified


track: Dèdé, Mama, Dèdé Mwen

artist: May Elias, Jim Gervais, Richard Gervais, Frederick James, Unidentified


track: Suavé Suavé Mwen


track: Hélé Wé Ay Ay


track: Request for performers' names by Alan Lomax

artist: Jim Gervais, Richard Gervais, Frederick James, Alan Lomax


track: Talk/ambience

artist: Unidentified


track: Ay, Ay, Ay, Ou Mama Mwen (II)


track: Ay, Ay, Ay, Ou Mama Mwen (I)


track: Oi-Li-La-La-Way-O

artist: May Elias, Carrie Belle Gervais, Vincent Gervais, Anelta Nicholas, Clemencia Nicholas, Lionel Simon, Marselina Taverner


track: La Riviere Roseau (false start)

artist: Jim Gervais, Richard Gervais, Frederick James


track: Allé Marrié


track: Walker, Walker, Mwen Pedi Lajan-Mwen


track: Interview with May Ellis about Macreau A Té Caille-mwen and her biography

artist: May Ellis, Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Macreau A Té Caille-mwen (II)


track: Macreau A Té Caille-mwen (I)


track: Naje Kanot-la

artist: George Etienne, Victor Johnson, Seaford Simon, Clemence Taverner


track: Naje Ba Mwen Pou Nou Allé


track: O La Nous Jamais Wè Ça


track: La Riviere Lezar Sauve-nous


track: Do, Do, Do, Gardé Do Mwen Porté Ba-ou


track: Say, Say, Say, Ti-Poulet-Ou Van (II)


track: La Riviere Lezar Sauve-nous (false start)


track: Interview with performers about cross wake song performance and history

artist: Jacob Delworth (J. D.) Elder, Alan Lomax, Unidentified man

album: Santa Cruz 5/62


track: Say, Say, Say, Ti-Poulet-Ou Van (I)


track: Cross wake song

artist: Alfred Codallo, Lucius Guerra, Brierley Mondesir, Vivian Moses


track: Interview with a performer about the history and performance practice of warap


track: Warap

artist: Eugene Brito, Alfred Codallo, Lucius Guerra, Brierley Mondesir, Vivian Moses


track: Interview with a performer about cross wake song performance


track: Paseo (II)


track: Interview with Alfred Codallo about the text, melody, and practice associated with paseo

artist: Alfred Codallo, Jacob Delworth (J. D.) Elder, Alan Lomax


track: Galeron


track: Castilian (II)


track: Paseo (I)


track: Castilian (I)


track: Roman Soldiers (I)

artist: Norah (Verna) Baptiste, Annette Belle, Lydia Celestine, Pearl Ector, Joy Jankarsingh, Angela Lafoucade, Alan Lomax, Maria Lopez, Jemina O'Conner, Helen Paris, Helen Quammie, Flora Wyatt

album: San Juan 5/62


track: Roman Soldiers (II)

artist: Norah (Verna) Baptiste, Annette Belle, Lydia Celestine, Pearl Ector, Joy Jankarsingh, Angela Lafoucade, Maria Lopez, Jemina O'Conner, Helen Paris, Helen Quammie, Flora Wyatt


track: Green Gravel

artist: Norah (Verna) Baptiste


track: Drop Peter Drop


track: Roman Soldiers (false start)


track: Coming Down With A Bunch Of Roses (II)


track: Went To Jamaica


track: In A Fine Castle


track: Coming Down With A Bunch Of Roses (I)


track: Introduction / The King And I

artist: Unidentified girl, Unidentified woman


track: Jane And Louisa


track: Sammy Dead-O


track: Sandy Girl


track: Mister Ram Goat-O (II)


track: Gypsy In The Moonlight (II)


track: There's A Brown Girl In The Ring


track: Gypsy In The Moonlight (I)


track: Unidentified classical love song (II)

artist: Alfred Leewah, B. P. K. Soo, Wong Dock Soo, Mae Tung, Joe Yen

album: San Fernando 5/62


track: Mister Ram Goat-O (I)


track: Unidentified classical love song (I)

artist: Choo Chow, Alfred Leewah, B. P. K. Soo, Mae Tung, Joe Yen


track: Oh, Madiana

artist: Malcousu Florius, Augustin Gourpil, Casimir Grivalliers, Raoul Grivalliers, Unidentified

album: Sainte-Marie II 6/62


track: Eleanor


track: Talk/ambience


track: Allons Done Anquilli


track: Interview with Casimir Grivalliers and performers about bélè performance

artist: Casimir Grivalliers, Alan Lomax


track: Ti Lisyen


track: Jean Mano Di Dèhyè-Mwen Ale


track: Biguine Noce Ta Florius


track: La Danse


track: La Bèrgère Et Le Prince (continued)


track: La Bèrgère Et Le Prince


track: Kont


track: Makak Et Chyen


track: Interview with Malcousu Florius about story telling (kont)

artist: Malcousu Florius, Alan Lomax


track: Conte Guadeloupéen


track: Interview with Malcousu Florius about Conte Guadeloupéen


track: Davila


track: Interview with a performer about work songs

artist: Alan Lomax, Unidentified man


track: Lévé Ason Bwa


track: Tim Tim


track: Interview with performers about story telling (kont) performance practice

artist: Malcousu Florius, Alan Lomax, Unidentified men


track: Ti Jan (continued)


track: Ti Jan


track: Interview with Raoul Grivalliers about Mama Moin Ba Moin L' Habitude

artist: Augustin Gourpil, Raoul Grivalliers, Alan Lomax


track: Mama Moin Ba Moin L' Habitude

artist: Raoul Grivalliers


track: Manze Ti Jeanne


track: Interview with Augustin Groupil and unidentified man about Manze Ti Jeanne

artist: Augustin Gourpil, Alan Lomax, Unidentified man