Smithsonian Folkways Special Collection on DeepDiscount

- Haitian Dances
- Artist:
  Frantz Casseus
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Haitian guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus charged himself with the mission of building a repertoire for guitar blending Haitian folk music and European classical music, much as Villa Lobos had... more
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- Folk Songs of Puerto Rico / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- It's all about cultural roots: On this record, the presence of the decima (a ballad-like song form often philosophical in nature) and the pasodoble (a fast Spanish dance that introduces a bull fight... more
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- Haitian Folk Songs
- Artist:
  Frantz Casseus
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Puerto Rican-born, Haitian-bred vocalist Lolita Cuevas and Haitian guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus lyrically come together in rendering some of the most beautiful folk songs of Haiti. Arranged... more
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- Cuba Va: Songs New Generation / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Paredon Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Written, arranged, performed and produced in Cuba by the Experimental Sound Collective of ICAIC (Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Arts and Industries). Sung in Spanish, with illustrated booklet,... more
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- Gospel Songs
- Artist:
  The Missionary Quintet
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Recorded in the Bahamas, the music on this album exemplifies the mix of the sacred and secular in gospel music. Such standards as "Give Me That Old Time Religion," sung in the ensemble's deep voices,... more
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- Real Calypso: 1927-1946 / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This compilation is an introduction to the golden age of calypso and to some of it's greatest exponents. The genre is known for it's incisive social commentary, and the songs on this album retain the... more
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- Puerto Rico: Como El Filo Del Machete
- Artist:
  Andres Jiminez
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Paredon Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
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- Tengo Puerto Rico en Mi Corazon
- Artist:
  Pepe Y Flora
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Paredon Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- I don't want anyone to listen to this record until they've put some truths into their heads. Because without these truths, you can never really understand this record on anything that comes out of a... more
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- Children's Jamaican Songs and Games
- Artist:
  Louise Bennett
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Louise Bennett leads irresistible ring games that have been the favorites of Jamaican children across generations. Many songs retain a specifically African or British flavor.
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- Songs Dances Puerto Rico / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
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- Caribbean Folk Music 1 / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Whether purely instrumental or with a chorus, each of these recordings manages to capture the spirit of the English, Spanish, and French speaking Caribbean. Many of the recordings are of dance music... more
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- Grenada Stories & Songs / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This field recording begins to document the tradition of spoken and sung storytelling in Grenada, a small island in the Caribbean. Full of humor, stories are told in English or English patois by a... more
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- Meringue!
- Artist:
  Ensemble Aux Calebasses
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Who first invented the meringue has long been a battle of pride for Haitians and Dominicans. While this recording alone cannot provide the decisive answer, it does prove that the lively dance form is... more
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- Champion Steel Trinidad / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Headliners at Carnival and pan competitions, these six champion steel bands from Trinidad offer listeners songs that hum gently or dance wildly. Participating ensembles are the Katzenjammers, the... more
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- Dance Calypso / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- According to the liner notes, "Calypso is... a humor-coated pellet of un-camouflaged truth... taking the opportunity of saying something to somebody in song that you couldn't say in polite society...... more
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- King Sparrow's Calypso Carnival
- Artist:
  Mighty Sparrow
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Calypso King Mighty Sparrow (nee Slinger Francisco) is known for provocative and often bawdy lyrics, at one point describing rival Lord Melody's face as "ugly... like a crocodile." Beyond this... more
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- Folk Music of Jamaica / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- This compilation provides a glimpse into the secular and religious musics of Jamaica. Work songs sung to occupy and energize manual laborers are placed side by side with "ring play" which consists of... more
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- Bahamas 2: Anthems Work / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- When reading Samuel Charters' saga of his search for Frederick McQueen, one gets the sense that he is chasing a ghost on the Bahamas' largest island of Andros - coincidentally known for it's... more
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- Calypso Rock Songs of Jamaica
- Artist:
  Horace Johnson
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- I didn't go to a Music School, it's just an in-born talent. I experience and learnt the hardest way," says Jamaican vocalist Horace Johnson. You'll recognize Belafonte's "Island in the Sun" and... more
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- Mr. Gavitt: Calypsos of Costa Rica
- Artist:
  Walter Ferguson
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Calypso survives sporadically in Limon and Bocas del Toro (Panama), especially around Carnival time, in the spring. Elsewhere on the mainland, the calypso culture is gone, driven out by radios and... more
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- Caribbean Limbo Music
- Artist:
  Lord Melody
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- How low can you go? Chances are, you'll laugh (or at least giggle) before you reach your limit. These largely instrumental pieces with limbo-appropriate rhythms are interspersed with brief humorous... more
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- Calypso Lore & Legend / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- 71-year old Chinee Patrick Jones, one of the most famous old-time Calypsonians to pass through Port of Spain, tells stories from his singing days and sings old tunes. As Jones reminisces, Carnival... more
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- Calypso Cross Section / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Juxtaposing the musical talents of vocalists Bomber, Wrangler, Killer and Small Island Pride, the art of the 1950s Trinidadian calypso resonates on this recording. These witty songs provide a lesson... more
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- Belly to Belly Dancing / Various
- Artist:
  Various Artists
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Cook Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Nestled in the Port of Spain, the Tom Charles, Fitz Vaughn Bryan, Johnny Gomez and Clarence Curvan Orchestras as well as the Vin Cardinal Combo provide alternatively upbeat and sultry grooves for... more
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- Cuba: Songs for Our America
- Artist:
  Carlos Puebla
- Genre: International, Caribbean
- Label: Paredon Records
- Release Date: 5/30/2012
- Features: CD
- Carlos Puebla challenged foreign influences and the forces of imperialism in 1950s Cuba with songs about his oppressed countrymen. Then, in his music, he chronicled and celebrated the 1959... more
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