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Date recorded: July 11, 1962
Contributor(s): Performer: Joy Bells; Performer: Morton, Alfredo; Performer: Hobson, Oliver; Performer: Hobson, Daniel; Performer: Hanley, Samuel; Performer: Hanley, Louis; Performer: Freeman, David; Performer: Archibald, Ernest; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: instrumental, oration
Culture: Caribbean, Nevis
Instruments: bass drum, fife, snare drum, voice
Language: Saint Kitts Creole English
Location: Gingerland, Saint George Gingerland, Nevis, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T1156
Track Number: 8
Archive ID: T1156R08
Note: The performance is interspersed with competitive speeches, bantering, and so forth. The speakers are not identified by name.
Transcript:
Belongs to: Gingerland II 7/62
About the session: This session features three different ensembles. It begins with a fife and drum group performing instrumental tunes, followed by a scratch band performing instrumental tunes interspersed with speeches and banter, and concludes with a calypso group. Roger Abrahams and Antoinette Marchand are the interviewers on this session. Some of the recordings (as well as speech transcriptions) can be found on Caribbean Voyage: Nevis and St. Kitts (Rounder CD 1731).
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