Alan Lomax In Haiti 1936-37
Label: HARTE Catalog: HRT103 Format: CD&BOOK In December of 1936, Alan Lomax arrived in Haiti to collect music. Lomax, with his soon to be wife Elizabeth Lyttleton Harold and his assistant Revolie Polinice collected 50 hours of field recordings over a period of four months, from 1936 through 1937. This incredible collection provides a broad picture of Haitian traditional music at the time. The recordings included urban and rural genres, such as merengues, Haiti's rustic troubadour music, Mardi Gras, Carnaval and other celebration music, voodoo music, children's songs, songs from the French tradition (including romances, canticles, and contredanse), songs of labor and leisure, and worship songs. Much of this is only now available to the general public for the first time. Price: $165.98 |