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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 4, the Caribbean / JVC, Victor Company of Japan, in collaboration with the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, and Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, Washington, D.C. ; director, Yuki Okada ; 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

Fourth 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. Countries covered on this tape are: Barbados, Cuba, Curaçao and Bonaire, Dominica, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago, with brief segments of carnival in Antigua, Grenada, St. Vincent, and St. Kitts.

Series Statement

JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of the Americas ; Volume 4.

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

The Caribbean. Barbados. 4-1. Tuk band / recorded in 1981 ; performed by the Troubadours Tuk Band.
Cuba. 4-2. Fiesta de Güiro (Santería/Lukumí celebratory rite): Salute and invocation to Shangó / recorded in 1992 ; music played by Florencio Baró and Group ; includes views of ritual objects and offerings.
4-3. Rumba: Maria La O / recorded ca. 1980 ; music played by Los Muñequitos de Matanzas ; includes dancing.
4-4. Tumba francesca: Masón dance / recorded ca. 1980 ; musicians and dancers not identified.
Curaçao and Bonaire. 4-5. Simadan (harvest celebration): Simadan procession and wapa dance / recorded ca. 1991 ; performed by residents of Rincon, Bonaire.
4-6. Seú [sorghum harvest] celebration / recorded ca. 1991 ; sung by Eric La Croes and Curaçao high school students.
4-7. Simadan (harvest celebration): Remailo / recorded ca. 1991 ; music played by residents of Rincon, Bonaire.
Dominica. 4-8. Children's ring game: Sally go round the sun / recorded in 1988 ; performed by children of Roseau, Dominica ; includes dancing.
4-9. Children's ring game / recorded in 1988 ; performed by children of Roseau, Dominica ; includes dancing.
4-10. Jing ping / recorded in 1988 ; music played by the Petite Soufrière Jing Ping Band.
Haiti. 4-11. Rara [carnival practice] / recorded in 1989 ; performers not identified ; includes music and dancing.
Jamaica. 4-12. Maroon communal song / recorded in 1992 ; musicians and dancers not identified.
4-13. Jonkonnu / recorded in 1992 ; performers not identified ; combines music, dance, masquerade, mime, parading, and panhandling.
4-14. Rastafarian song: Fly away home / recorded in 1992 ; sung by Rastafarian brethren.
4-15. Folk song: Dis long time gal / recorded in 1981 ; sung by the Jamaican Folk Singers, directed by Olive Lewin ; includes dancing.
4-16. Mento band: Nobody's business / recorded in 1990 ; performers not identified.
Martinique. 4-17. Biguine / recorded in 1990 ; performed by Kali (Jean-Marc Monnerville) and group ; includes dancing.
4-18. Martinican quadrille and biguine medley: Ban mwen on ti bo (Give me a little kiss) / recorded in 1990 ; performed by Bwa Kan' Nel, led by bassist Max Bellony.
Puerto Rico. 4-19. Jíbaro ensemble: Cantor de oficio (The office of singer) / recorded at Wolf Trap Barns, Virginia, in 1994 ; performed by the Familia Colón.
St. Lucia. 4-20. Manpa song: An' bwiyé lawò, pou nou fé wadlo lapenn / recorded in 1985 ; performed by members of La Rose flower society.
4-21. Lakonmèt pitjé: Sèl bagay ki ka fè mwen lapenn (The only thing that makes me feel sad) / recorded in 1985 ; performed by Ives Simeon (violin and vocals) and group ; includes views of the lakonmèt pitjé, a closed-couple dance.
4-22. Kwadril (quadrille) / recorded ca. 1990 ; performed by the Frank Norville group ; includes dancing.
Trinidad and Tobago. 4-23. East Indian tassa group [musical ensemble] / recorded during Carnival, 1988 ; performed by Trinidadian East Indian musicians and masqueraders ; includes dancing.
4-24. Bele [dance] / recorded in 1979 ; performed by Donald McAuley with guest dancers and musicians.
4-25. Work song with tamboo bamboo band: Five thirty-five in the morning / recorded in 1988 ; performed by Andrew Beddoe and group ; includes dancing.
4-26. Bongo dance with tamboo bamboo band / recorded in 1982 ; performers not identified.
4-27. Calinda / recorded in 1985 ; combines music, dance, martial arts, including a stick fight ; performers not identified.
4-28. Spiritual Baptist baptism rite / recorded in 1988 ; performed by members of the United Brotherhood of Time Spiritual School ; includes dancing.
4-29. Parang [musical form] / recorded in 1988 ; performed by Daisy Voisin and group ; includes dancing.
4-30. Calypso/soca: Carnival killer / recorded in 1991 ; performed by Denyse Plummer and Kitchener's Review Tent Band ; includes dancing.
4-31. Steel band: Woman is boss / recorded in 1988 ; performed by Phase II Pan Groove Steelband ; includes dancing.
Carnival montage. 4-32. Various Caribbean carnival practices / recorded late 1980s to early 1990s in Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua, St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Vincent, Grenada, and Martinique ; includes dancing.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-2483

OCLC

NYPY97-F141

Title

The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of the Americas. Volume 4, the Caribbean / JVC, Victor Company of Japan, in collaboration with the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, and Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, Washington, D.C. ; director, Yuki Okada ; 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 4.

Credits

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

Local Subject

Ritual and ceremonial dancing -- West Indies.

Harvest dances.

Singing dances and games.

Child dancers.

Mask dances.

Hobby-horse dances.

Stick dances.

Combat dances.

Added Author

Baró, Florencio. Instrumentalist

La Croes, Eric. voc

Norville, Frank. Instrumentalist

Okada, Yuki. Director

Ichikawa, Katsumori. Producer

Ichihashi, Yuji. Producer

Fujii, Tomoaki, 1932-2023. Editor

Seeger, Anthony. Editor

Muñequitos de Matanzas (Musical group)

Jamaican Folksingers.

Nihon Bikutā Kabushiki Kaisha.

Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings.

Multicultural Media (Firm)

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-2483

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