Audio file

Date recorded: June 17, 1962
Contributor(s): Performer: Bélè group; Performer: Unidentified; Performer: Grivalliers, Raoul; Performer: Baratini, Florent; Recordist: Lomax, Alan

Subject(s):

Genre: bélè, Bidjin bélè

Culture: French Antillian, Martinique

Instruments: tanbou bélè, tibwa, voice

Setting: Home of Raoul Grivalliers ("Ti Raoul")

Language: Martiniquan Creole French

Location: Sainte-Marie, Le Perou, Martinique, France

Physical form: Reel to Reel

Tape number: T1117

Track Number: 21

Archive ID: T1117R21

Note: Call-and-response between the lead singer and chorus. Chorus singing in unison.

Transcript:
Belongs to: Sainte-Marie I 6/62

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