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Date recorded: May 3, 1962
Contributor(s): Performer: Rose of Sharon Singers; Performer: Philip, David; Performer: Edwards, Levi; Performer: Davis, Ridley; Performer: Albert, Aaron; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Subject(s):
Genre: dance tune, reel
Culture: Caribbean, Trinidad
Instruments: cutter drum, fiddle, roller drum, steel drum, tambourine
Language: Trinidadian Creole French
Location: Toco, Sangre Grande, Trinidad and Tobago
Physical form: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T1068
Track Number: 13
Archive ID: T1068R13
Note: Music and singing that accompanies a reel-dance: a performance tradition derived from Scotland and used as a means for ancestral veneration and contact. This performance features one of several possible instrumental configurations and includes (male) vocal adlib.
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Belongs to: Toco I 5/62
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