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- Bahamas 2: Anthems Work / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- When reading Samuel Charters' saga of his search for Frederick McQueen, one gets the sense that he is chasing a ghost on the Bahamas' largest island of Andros - coincidentally known for it's... more
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- Folk Songs of Puerto Rico / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- It's all about cultural roots: On this record, the presence of the decima (a ballad-like song form often philosophical in nature) and the pasodoble (a fast Spanish dance that introduces a bull fight... more
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- Dominican Republic 3 / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Music from the Dominican Republic: Vol. 3, Cradle of the New World, continues in the vein of prior volumes in the series, offering songs that range from religious salves in praise of the Virgin Mary... more
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- Real Calypso: 1927-1946 / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This compilation is an introduction to the golden age of calypso and to some of it's greatest exponents. The genre is known for it's incisive social commentary, and the songs on this album retain the... more
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- Boricua Roots/ Raices Boricuas: Puerto Rican Songs
- Artist:
  Sandra Roldan
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- The title of this album, Boricua Roots, does not represent a catching design in search of sales success. Neither does the collection of songs. Nor has the singer channeled her extraordinary potential... more
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- The Steel Drums of Kim Loy Wong
- Artist:
  Kim Loy Wong
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- When the British police in Trinidad-then part of the British West Indies-banned traditional bamboo stick bands around the time of World War II, young Trinidadians improvised, and the steel drum was... more
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- Children's Jamaican Songs and Games
- Artist:
  Louise Bennett
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Louise Bennett leads irresistible ring games that have been the favorites of Jamaican children across generations. Many songs retain a specifically African or British flavor.
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- Dominican Republic 4 / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Bordering the Atlantic Ocean, the northern areas of the Dominican Republic are home to the Cordillera Septentrional mountains and farmlands in the Cibao valley. Songs such as "Canto de Hacha... more
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- Jamaican Roots 1 / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Jamaican folk music blends African, European and East Indian (in dialect: Bongo, Backra and Coolie) roots into something distinctly Jamaican. Kumina, a magico-religious cult of predominantly rural... more
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- Haitian Dances
- Artist:
  Frantz Casseus
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Haitian guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus charged himself with the mission of building a repertoire for guitar blending Haitian folk music and European classical music, much as Villa Lobos had... more
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- There's a Brown Boy in the Ring
- Artist:
  Lord Invader
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- RELATED LESSON PLAN "Steel band Style, Calypso Culture and Childhood Chants: Trinidadian Music for the Classroom"
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- Calypso Rock Songs of Jamaica
- Artist:
  Horace Johnson
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- I didn't go to a Music School, it's just an in-born talent. I experience and learnt the hardest way," says Jamaican vocalist Horace Johnson. You'll recognize Belafonte's "Island in the Sun" and... more
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- Mr. Gavitt: Calypsos of Costa Rica
- Artist:
  Walter Ferguson
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Calypso survives sporadically in Limon and Bocas del Toro (Panama), especially around Carnival time, in the spring. Elsewhere on the mainland, the calypso culture is gone, driven out by radios and... more
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- Afro-Dominican Music / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- The Dominican Republic is a culturally complex country and is roughly divisible into several different culture zones. These include the more Hispanic or Iberian North (the Cibao), and the more... more
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- Haitian Folk Songs
- Artist:
  Frantz Casseus
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Puerto Rican-born, Haitian-bred vocalist Lolita Cuevas and Haitian guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus lyrically come together in rendering some of the most beautiful folk songs of Haiti. Arranged... more
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- Jamaican Folk Songs
- Artist:
  Louise Bennett
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Jamaican singer and folklorist Louise Bennett sings Jamaican folk songs, work songs, dancing songs and banana-boat-loading songs. Amongst these songs are parables, cautionary tales and opportunities... more
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- Music of Bahamas 3 / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- In 1958, Samuel Charters captured the sounds of celebration during of the anniversary weekend of emancipation known as August Monday. On the island of Andros, Charters recorded traditional 'rake 'n'... more
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- Dominican Republic 2 / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- In the Dominican Republic, syncretism between African traditions and Catholicism often manifests itself in songs and rituals. On this album "Sarandunga," a celebration that honors St. John the... more
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- West Indian Folksongs for Children
- Artist:
  Lord Invader
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Released in 1960, West Indian Folksongs for Children features original compositions by the Trinidadian Calypso singer Lord Invader. Some of the tunes are twists on other classics. For example,... more
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- Creole Songs of Haiti / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This recording combines vocal interpretations of Vodou (an Afro-Haitian religion) ceremonial songs and popular secular melodies by legendary Haitian singer, dancer and folklorist Emerante de Pradines... more
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- Caribbean Dances / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Cruise the Caribbean during the mid-twentieth century heyday of "the society ballroom and the honky-tonk [music] of the West Indies." Stop by Martinique, the Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Trinidad,... more
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- Folk Music of Jamaica / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This compilation provides a glimpse into the secular and religious musics of Jamaica. Work songs sung to occupy and energize manual laborers are placed side by side with "ring play" which consists of... more
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- Religious Songs Bahamas / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- In this collection of Religious Songs and Drums in the Bahamas, Marshall Stearns demonstrates the strong external influences on Bahamian music and culture. The religious music by the... more
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- Haitian Piano
- Artist:
  Fabre Duroseau
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Hailing from a highly respected musical family, Haitian pianist Fabre Duroseau delights with the pianistic flourishes of meringue-s composed by himself and his brothers. The Haitian meringue (a... more
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- Gospel Songs
- Artist:
  The Missionary Quintet
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Recorded in the Bahamas, the music on this album exemplifies the mix of the sacred and secular in gospel music. Such standards as "Give Me That Old Time Religion," sung in the ensemble's deep voices,... more
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