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.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Notes:
This work is going to investigate to subtle passage of the oral memory for the corporal one, inside the ritual of the Congado, in the Community of the Arturos, situated in the city of Tally, near to Beautiful Horizon, in General Mines. The Community is characterized for the maintenance of its traditions, that you come being transmitted of generation for generation
Birbalsingh discusses Indo-Caribbean culture, and the origins and influences of Indo-Caribbean short stories, beginning with the marriage of Indian and African oral traditions. Several authors from throughout Indo-CAribbean literature are profiled, including A. R. F. Webber, V. S. Naipaul, and Samuel Selvon.;
