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The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of the Americas.

Title: The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of the Americas. Volume 1, Canada and the United States / JVC, Victor Company of Japan, in collaboration with the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, and Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, Washington, D.C. ; director, Hiroaki Ohta ; co-producer, Stephen McArthur, Multicultural Media ; executive producers, Katsumori Ichikawa and Yuji Ichihashi.
Publication: [Tokyo?] : JVC, Victor Company of Japan ; Montpelier, VT : Multicultural Media, c1995.

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1 videocassette (59 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS) +

Summary

First of six videocassettes designed to be used along with accompanying booklets containing both general information and specific descriptions of the musical and dance selections, as well as suggestions for further research. Most of the performances were recorded on location, many in the open air, and are generally performed by natives of the region. This cassette covers Francophone, Native, and Anglophone traditions in Canada, and African-American secular music in the United States.

Series Statement

JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of the Americas ; Volume 1.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Music.
Video.

Note

Volume number from original container.
Accompanying booklet available in *MGS (General) 97-10319.

Credits (note)

Editorial supervisor (books), Tomoaki Fujii ; senior editor (books), Anthony Seeger ; editor (books), Mark Greenberg.

Contents

Canada. Francophone music and dance. 1-1. Dance tune: Le brandy / recorded in 1978 ; played by Philippe Bruneau (accordion)
1-2. Lancers quadrille: Le lancier / recorded in 1976 ; music played by Georgiana Audet (violin), Arthur Rouleau (violin), Rosaire Laplante (guitar), Jean-Louis Picard (accordion), Grégoire Tremblay (piano), André Labbé (drum) ; dancers not identified.
1-3. Medley of Scottish strathspeys and reels: Laird o'Thrums (strathspey), Gavin M'Millan (reel), Laird o'Drumblair (strathspey), Gladstone's reel (reel) / recorded in 1975 ; played by Jean Carignan (fiddle).
1-4. Longways set dance: La contredanse / recorded in 1974 ; music played by Louis "Pitou" Boudreault ; dancers not identified ; includes step dancing.
1-5. Turlute (lilting): My love is but a lassie yet [and] Jackson's bottle of brandy / recorded in 1979 ; music played by Émile Benoît.
1-6. Fiddling and stepdancing: The woman of the house / recorded in 1979 ; music played by Émile Benoît, Joachim Benoît, Benjamin Benoît, and Georges Chiasson (fiddles) ; danced by Geneviève Chiasson and Charlie Chiasson.
1-7. Work song: Mon père a fait bâtir maison (My father built a house) / recorded in 1976 ; sung by Marie D. Deveaux.
1-8. Reel à bouche (lilting): Le reel de Sainte-Anne / recorded in 1975 ; instrumental work played by Audrey St-Coeur.
1-9. Song: Écoutez-moi, je vais vous chanter un p'tit tour qui m'est arrivé / recorded in 1976 ; sung by Lazare Hébert.
1-10. French quadrille: Quadrille acadien, L'homme à deux femmes (The man with two wives) / recorded in 1976 ; music played by Claude Austin (violin) and Gérald Fournier (guitar) ; danced by residents of Tracadie, New Brunswick.
1-11. Stepdancing, reels / recorded in 1976 ; music played by Claude Austin (violin) ; solo danced by Normand Basque.
Canada. Native and Anglophone music and dance. 1-12. Inuit katajjait (vocal games) / recorded in 1980 and 1975 ; performers not identified.
1-13. Cree traditional fiddling: Soldier's joy / recorded in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, in 1980 ; played by Ray Spencer, Bob McLeod, and o
1-14. Celtic folk song: Anchors away, love / recorded in 1980 ; singers not identified.
1-15. Mummers' house visit / recorded in 1975 ; performers not identified ; includes dancing by masked and costumed figures.
1-16. Traditional Christmas carol: God rest ye merry gentlemen / recorded in 1978 ; sung by Figgy Duff [musical group].
1-17. Sea shanty: Luke's boat / recorded in 1994 ; music performed by Rik Barron and Dave Panting.
1-18. Métis fiddling and dancing: Red River jig / recorded in 1992 ; music played by Lawrence Houle (fiddle) ; stepdancing and square dancing by Métis people (people of mixed Indian and European ancestry).
United States. African-American secular traditions. 1-19. Children's ring game: Mama lamma cooma lamma / recorded in 1976 ; performed by children of Sea Island, South Carolina ; includes dancing.
1-20. Body slapping and flatfoot dance / recorded in 1985 ; danced by Quentin "Fris" Holloway and John D. Holeman.
1-21. Blues harmonica and shout: Shouting the blues / recorded in 1969 ; performed by Sonny Terry (vocals, harmonica).
1-22. Folk blues: C.C. Rider / recorded in 1992 ; performed by Eddie Kirkland (vocals, guitar) and Neal Pattman (harmonica).
1-23. Piedmont blues: Richmond blues / recorded in 1985 ; performed by John Cephas (vocals, guitar) and Phil Wiggins (harmonica).
1-24. Folk song and Piedmont fingerpicking: Freight train / recorded in 1979 ; performed by Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten (vocals, guitar).
1-25. Ragtime piano: Something doing / recorded in 1990 ; performed by Kerrigan Black (piano).
1-26. Popular song with traditional jazz combo: Save the bones for Henry Jones / recorded in 1983 ; performed by Danny Barker (vocals, guitar).
1-27. New Orleans brass band: When the saints go marching in / recorded in 1986 ; played by ReBirth Brass Band.
1-28. Mardi Gras Indian song: Meet de boys on de battlefront / recorded in 1983 ; performed by the Golden Eagles.
1-29. Urban blues: Did you ever love a woman? / recorded in 1991 ; sung by Rev. D.A. Gatemouth Moore.
1-30. Urban (Chicago) blues: I'm gettin' tired now / recorded in 1992 ; performed by Drink Small (vocals, guitar).
1-31. Rhythm and blues vocal group: Crying in the chapel / recorded in 1991 ; performed by the Legendary Orioles.
1-32. Go-go dance: Take me out to see junk yard / recorded in 1993 ; music performed by the Junkyard Band ; includes dancing.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-2480

OCLC

33919096
NYPY97-F138

Title

The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of the Americas. Volume 1, Canada and the United States / JVC, Victor Company of Japan, in collaboration with the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, and Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, Washington, D.C. ; director, Hiroaki Ohta ; co-producer, Stephen McArthur, Multicultural Media ; executive producers, Katsumori Ichikawa and Yuji Ichihashi.

Imprint

[Tokyo?] : JVC, Victor Company of Japan ; Montpelier, VT : Multicultural Media, c1995.

Country of Producing Entity

Japan.

Series

JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of the Americas ; Volume 1.

Credits

Editorial supervisor (books), Tomoaki Fujii ; senior editor (books), Anthony Seeger ; editor (books), Mark Greenberg.

Local Subject

Square, round and contra dancing.

Singing dances and games.

Child dancers.

Flatfooting.

Go-go dancing, African-American.

Added Author

Bruneau, Philippe, 1934- Instrumentalist

Carignan, Jean. Instrumentalist

Boudreault, Louis, 1905- Instrumentalist

Benoit, Emile, 1913- Instrumentalist

Holloway, Quentin, dancer.

Holeman, John Dee, dancer.

Terry, Sonny. Instrumentalist. voc

Kirkland, Eddie, 1928- Instrumentalist. voc

Pattman, Neal. Instrumentalist

Cephas, John. Instrumentalist. voc

Wiggins, Phil. Instrumentalist

Cotten, Elizabeth. Instrumentalist. voc

Black, Kerrigan. Instrumentalist

Barker, Danny. Instrumentalist. voc

Moore, Gatemouth, 1913- voc

Small, Drink. Instrumentalist. voc

Ohta, Hiroaki. Director

Ichikawa, Katsumori. Producer

Ichihashi, Yuji. Producer

Fujii, Tomoaki, 1932-2023. Editor

Seeger, Anthony. Editor

Rebirth Brass Band.

Golden Eagles (Musical group)

Orioles (Musical group)

Nihon Bikutā Kabushiki Kaisha.

Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings.

Multicultural Media (Firm)

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-2480

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