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    2. Ancestors and Migrants: On Tradition and Reflection in Surinamese Singing, Storytelling and Writing

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Van Kempen,Michiel (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Nov 2004
    Published:
    Barbados: University of the West Indies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of West Indian Literature
    Journal Title Details:
    12(1/2) : 31-52
    Notes:
    Van Kempen discusses the songs and traditions of the Saramaccan peoples of the Upper Suriname. The music and lyrics of the Saramaccans depicts the troubles the ethnic groups have experienced in the 1990s from transmigration ordered by the government, typically lamenting or singing the praises of their old African villages, and cursing Western engineers for the uprooting of their cultures.;

    4. Palenge Awe/Palenque Hoy/Palenque Today: The Spanish Caribbean, the African Creole Perspective and the Role of San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Morton,Thomas B. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall-Winter, 2000
    Published:
    Oakland, CA: Black World Foundation
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black Scholar
    Journal Title Details:
    30(3-4) : 51-53
    Notes:
    This is a sociolinguistic study of San Basilio, located on Colombia's northern or Caribbean coast and the last surviving community where a Spanish-based Creole language still exists in the whole of the Americas