Moma Moma

Title: Moma Moma
Date recorded: May 8, 1962
Contributor(s): Performer: Tamboo Bamboo; Performer: Waithe, Reynold; Performer: Waithe, Ellick; Performer: Scott, Oliver; Performer: Roberts, Donald; Performer: O'Brien, Uric; Performer: Joseph, Ned; Performer: Jordan, Malcolm; Performer: Fournillier, Johnnie; Performer: Felix, Sylvie; Performer: Dowdy, Albert; Performer: de Freitas, Vasco; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Genre: kalenda
Instruments: boom pipe, cutter bamboo, fuller bamboo, maracas, voice
Culture: Caribbean, Trinidad
Language: Trinidadian Creole French

Subject(s):

Note: Call-and-response singing between the lead singer and chorus. The rapping of bottle-and-spoon can be heard on this recording.
Setting: Nicholas Street

Location: Maraval, Diego Martin, Trinidad and Tobago

Archive ID: T1097R06

Original format: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T1097
Track: 6

Part of: Maraval 5/62

About the session: This session features performances by a tamboo bamboo ensemble as well as a number of carnival speeches/boasts by leader/singer Vasco de Freitas. A tamboo bamboo ensemble consists primarily of bamboo stamping tubes of different sizes that are played in a hocket-like fashion.

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