THE CARIBBEAN VOYAGE: TRINIDAD THE 1962 FIELD RECORDINGS 74 minutes Carnival Roots: With Trinidad's famous Shrovetide festival as its focus, this collection of kalendas, bélè, maypole songs, castilians, pasillos, calypso, and Hosein (and Hosay drumming) - plus a "Midnight Robber" speech and performer interviews - explores the links between pre-emancipation African-Caribbean traditions, the emerging music of cosmopolitan Trinidad, and the Carnival of the twenty-first century. Caribbean Voyage: Released for the first time, Alan Lomax's legendary 1962 recordings of the rich and many-stranded musical traditions of the Lesser Antilles and eastern Caribbean - work songs, pass-play and story songs, calypso, East Indian chaupai, and steel band music - reflecting the Central and West African, French, English, Celtic, Spanish and East Indian contributions to Caribbean culture.
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