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    Roots Of Black Music In America Some Correspondences Between The Music Of The Slave Areas Of West Africa, USA and Caribbean

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    • Waje Ward – Virginia Banjo Instrumental
    • 1. Hausa Drum Group – Simpah - Simpa
    • 2. Bahamian Drum Group – Jumping Dance
    • 3. Ewe Drum Orchestra – Atsiagbekor
    • 4. New York Street Musicians – New York Street Band
    • 5. Female Wolof Singers – Kendal
    • 6. Andros Island Musicians – Everything the monkey do
    • 7. Gio Workers – Gio Song
    • 8. New Orleans Street Drumming
    • 9. Baby Dodds – New Orleans/Chicago Jazz Drumming
    • 10. Baoule Drum Orchestra – Anougble Festival
    • 11. New York Contemporary Jazz Drumming
    • 12. Kpelle Bush Cutters – Work Songs
    • 13. Cameroonian Coffee Sifters – Work Song
    • 14. Jamaican Construction Workers – Work Song
    • 15. Male Dogon Singers – Men's Wedding Song
    • 16. Go Down Old Hannah
    • 17. Wive's Song/Alabama Children's Song (medley)
    • 18. Akon Adowa Musicians – Akonodey
    • 19. Kumina Musicians – Country Song
    • 20. Bafut Musicians – Mansa
    • 21. Wolog Gewel – Samba Gilaweji
    • 22. J.D. Short – Wasting My Time
    • 23. Wolof Gewel – Tara
    • 24. Tuareg Musicians – Minstrels
    • 25. Kentucky Banjo Instrumentals
    • 26. Waje Ward – Virginia Banjo Instrumental
    • 27. Roscoe Holcomb – Kentucky Banjo with Voice
    • 28. Kpelle Musician – Instrumental
    • 29. Bassa Musicians – Belly Harp
    • 30. Baoule Musician – Djourou
    • 31. Yacqui Musician – Vera-Cruz Style Harp
    • 32. Mandingo Musicians – Belafon
    • 33. Baoule Musicians – Baoule
    • 34. Mexican Musicians – Marimba
    • 35. Jon Weih – Musical Bow
    • 36. Utah Smith – I have two wings
    • 37. Daddy Hotcakes – Saddlehorse Blues
    • 38. Andros Island Musicians – When A Man Marries His Troubles Just Begin
    • 39. Eureka Brass Band – Just a little while to stay here
    • 40. He's a friend of mine
    • 41. Jazz at the Philharmonic, Blues, Part 3

    How the music of USA, the Caribbean and Western Africa is connected by the slave trade with comparisons between the various musics and instruments in the various countries.

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