Music from Saramaka a dynamic Afro-American tradition /
Music of the Saramacca, a maroon (runaway slave) community of Suriname.
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| Format: | Audio |
| Language: | Creole |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings,
[2002?], p1977.
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| Series: | Custom compact disc series.
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Table of Contents:
- Tree-felling songs: matjau baai (10:59)
- Adunke song (0:55)
- History in song (1:45)
- Benta. Instrumental (2:19) ; Instrumental: apuku djombo, djebikese kule buta di (2:33) ; Instrumental: gadu tumao - drumming in the forest (2:11) ; Instrumental: komanti tumao - drumming for the komanti gods
- Seketi songs. Two songs of despair (2:00) ; Song of disaster, song of love (2:21) ; Song of a quarrel (1:23) ; Song of rejection (1:18) ; Song of resignation (1:45) ; Song for a maiden (1:40) ; Song about a parrot (0:51) ; Song of a foreign land (0:54)
- The flight of the hummingbird (1:57)
- Seketi (2:29)
- For Bandammba (1:19)
- Apinti: talking drum (4:22)