Research Catalog

Title

Matanzas, Cuba, ca. 1957 [sound recording] : Afro-Cuban sacred music from the countryside.

Publication

Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, p2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cabrera, Lydia.
• Tarafa, Josefina.

Description

1 sound disc : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Alternative Title

• Matanzas, Cuba, circa 1957
• Afro-Cuban sacred music from the countryside

Subjects

• Folk music > Cuba > Matanzas (Province)
• Santeria music > Cuba > Matanzas (Province)
• Blacks > Cuba > Matanzas (Province) > Music
• Field recordings > Cuba > Matanzas (Province)
• Cuba > Sound recordings
• Folk songs, Yoruba > Cuba > Matanzas (Province)
• Percussion ensembles
• Folk songs, Bantu > Cuba > Matanzas (Province)

Note

• "[T]hese recordings preserve extremely rare bembé lukumi ritual drumming used by practitioners of Santeria to summon the gods or salute Cuba's African nations. ... With origins in Yoruba religion in West Africa, this music reveals the roots of today's Afro-Cuban ceremonial practices"--Container.
• "From the historic recordings of Lydia Cabrera and Josefina Tarafa"--Container.
• Compact disc.
• Program notes in English, with bibliographical and discographical references, by Morton Marks (28 p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Event (note)

• Recorded in Matanzas, Cuba, 1957.

Language (note)

• Sung principally in Yoruba and Bantu.

Contents

Toque Oyo (2:56) ; Toque Arará (3:59) ; Toque Mina-Yona : (obatalá) (2:19) (Domingo Hernández, Marcelo Carreras, Angel Rolando, drums ; Domingo Hernández, Jr., hoe blade) -- Mo juba ocha = I pay homage to the orisha (1:49) ; Ogún Onile (1:55) (Inés Sotomayor and group) -- Ibarabo ago mo juba = Song for Eleguá (3:06) ; Song for Ogún (3:16) ; Oshosi : Ayilodá mala mala de = Song for Oshosi (4:47) (Marcos Portillo Dominguez and group) -- Omodara dei = Song for Orishaoko (Emiliano de Armas and group) (2:59) -- Babaluaiyé (3:20) ; Shangó (5:18) ; Oyá (4:12) ; Yemayá (3:18) (Marcos Portillo Dominguez and group) -- Osain songs (Domingo Hernandez) (1:23) -- Guirigi tongo un mene mene ó (1:10) ; Magó kueki bay arere (1:22) ; Okun leo, vamo' pa' la loma (1:12) (Florinda Pastor, Agustin Diago and group) -- Toque Yesá : for Inlé (Domingo Hernández, Marcelo Carreras, Angel Rolando, drums ; Domingo Hernández, Jr., hoe blade) (1:52) -- Urú Dadá (2:41) ; Shangó moforibale (2:52) ; Yeyé/Songs for Iroko (2:18) (Alberto Yenkins and group) -- Toque Yesá : for Oshún (Domingo Hernández, Marcelo Carreras, Angel Rolando, drums ; Domingo Hernández, Jr., hoe blade) (1:36) -- Moforibale Ogún = I pay homage to Ogún (Unknown soloist with Inés Sotomayor and group) (1:42) -- Olokun (Fernando Hernández, vocals ; Inés Sotomayor's group) (1:58) -- Toque egbado (1:27) ; Toque de bembé (3:30) (Domingo Hernández, Marcelo Carreras, Angel Rolando, drums ; Domingo Hernández, Jr., hoe blade).

Call Number

*LDC 28079 (F)

LCCN

093074049020

OCLC

48846771

Title

Matanzas, Cuba, ca. 1957 [sound recording] : Afro-Cuban sacred music from the countryside.

Imprint

Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, p2001.

Performer

Various performers.

Event

Recorded in Matanzas, Cuba, 1957.

Language

Sung principally in Yoruba and Bantu.

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Added Author

Cabrera, Lydia.

Tarafa, Josefina.

Other Standard Identifier

093074049020

Publisher No.

SFW CD 40490 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Research Call Number

*LDC 28079 (F) Program notes on file.