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- Date Released: January 1, 1961
- Genre: International
- Style: Caribbean
- Label: Folkways Records / Smithsonian Folkways
If dance tunes is trance tunes, then these are the music's starting points.
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We Say...
The spiritual music of Trinidad and Tobago influenced calypso in much the same way that America's slave songs and spirituals informed jazz and the blues: they preserved the West African elements which gave those forms their thrust and coloring. This 1961 album collects field recordings of so-called "Shango Cults" (who spread a patina of Catholic ritual over West African beliefs) and Spiritual Baptists (or "Shouters"), who traced their origins back to liberated slaves who'd fought on the British side during the American Revolution. The Shango ceremonies are intensely polyrhythmic, with call-and-response qualities rooted in Yoruba chants. The Shouter services are more demure and, to fans of America's own old-timey music, they'll sound more familiar. (Check out track ten, which begins with a recitation of the 23rd Psalm.) If dance tunes is trance tunes — and Calypsos are both — then these are the music's starting points.
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| 01. |  |
Shango Cult: Shango Oh Bababa
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2:53 |
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| 02. | |
Shango Cult: Annual Ceremony
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2:49 |
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| 03. | |
Shango Cult: Annual Ceremony
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3:00 |
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| 04. | |
Shango Cult: Solo to Yoruba Deity
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4:48 |
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| 05. | |
Shango Cult: Solo to Yoruba Deity
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1:06 |
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| 06. | |
Shango Cult: Annual Ceremony in a Rural Area
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4:39 |
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| 07. | |
Shango Cult: Annual Ceremony in a Rural Area
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3:43 |
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| 08. |
Shouters (Spiritual Baptist) Church: Bell Ringing
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0:31 |
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| 09. | |
Shouters (Spiritual Baptist) Church: Singing at Shouters Service
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5:53 |
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| 10. | |
Shouters (Spiritual Baptist) Church: Praying and Singing
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5:56 |
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| 11. | |
Shouters (Spiritual Baptist) Church: Singing
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2:24 |
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| 12. | |
Shouters (Spiritual Baptist) Church: Bell Ringing
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2:49 |
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| 13. | |
Shouters (Spiritual Baptist) Church: Singing and Handclapping
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0:56 |
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| 14. | |
Shouters (Spiritual Baptist) Church: Fragment of Sermon
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3:48 |
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| 15. | |
Shouters (Spiritual Baptist) Church: Singing and Handclapping
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2:29 |
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| 16. | |
Shouters (Spiritual Baptist) Church: Speaking in "Tongues"
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1:43 |
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16 Total Tracks, 49:27 Total Length
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