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    • African and Afro-American Drums – Ceremonial Drums 4:39
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    • 2. Ceremonial Drums 3:33
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    • 4. Stamping Tubes
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    • 8. Dance Drums 2:01
    • 9. Sit-Log Talking Drum
    • 10. Ndlamu Dance Drums
    • 11. Festival Drumming
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    • 13. Jumping Dance Drums
    • 14. Djuka Dance Drums 1:03
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    Excellent roots African-derived  drum recordings from the 1950s. Recommended music from Bahamas, Brazil, Congo, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Surinam, United States, and the Virgin Islands, recorded by the celebrated anthropologist Harold Courlander.

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