• African and Afro-American Drums – Ceremonial Drums 4:39
    • 1. Ceremonial Drums 4:39
    • 2. Ceremonial Drums 3:33
    • 3. Dance Drums 3:11
    • 4. Stamping Tubes
    • 5. Harvest Festival
    • 6. Salute To A Chief
    • 7. Drums For The Deity Orchestra
    • 8. Dance Drums 2:01
    • 9. Sit-Log Talking Drum
    • 10. Ndlamu Dance Drums
    • 11. Festival Drumming
    • 12. Djuka Dance Drums 2:33
    • 13. Jumping Dance Drums
    • 14. Djuka Dance Drums 1:03
    • 15. Lucumi
    • 16. Quitta Seche Dance Drums
    • 17. Juba Dance Drumming
    • 18. Cuminia Drums
    • 19. Rhythms for the Deity Eshu
    • 20. Rhythms for the Deity Ogun
    • 21. Bamboula dance drums
    • 22. Djuka drums
    • 23. Jazz drumming
    • 24. Street band drumming

    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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