African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
189 p., Traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at all. The top half of each page presents a direct transcript of oral histories told by living Saramakas about their eighteenth-century ancestors, "Maroons" who had escaped slavery and settled in the rain forests of Suriname. Below these transcripts, Richard Price provides commentaries placing the Saramaka accounts into broader social, intellectual, and historical contexts.
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
