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Date recorded: July 11, 1962
Contributor(s): Performer: Unidentified man; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: ballad, cowboy song, oration
Culture: Caribbean, Nevis
Instruments: 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: 9
Archive ID: T1156R09
Note: Speech interspersed with (solo) singing. The cowboy ballad, only one verse of which is sung, is turned into a sort of Caribbean cante-fable.
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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