Gillis,Verna (Produced and Recorded by) and Price,Richard (Annotated by)
Format:
Sound Recording
Publication Date:
1981
Published:
New York: Lyrichord
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Recorded in 1977., 1 sound disc: 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in, Ritual songs and folk dance music including the traditional folk tale performance ; sung in Saramaccan ; with talking drum (apinti). Contents include: Music of the Saramaka Maroons, Suriname. Includes: Sêkêti singing -- Apínti talking drum -- Alesingô (pole dance) -- Apúku -- Sêkêti drumming -- Kóntu folktale -- Adunké singing -- Vodu Papagádu (snake god) ritual
Focuses on the illegal entry of Haitians from Bolivia and Peru who traveled from the Caribbean to South America's other side. With Haiti hit by an earthquake on January 2010, Haitians are being exploited physically, financially and sexually in Bolivia and Peru by an illegal underground railroad known as coyotes or "coiotes." Haiti's economy is based on alleged slave labor and natural resources exploitation.
