African and Afro-American drums
Series: Ethnic folkways library; Ethnic Folkways library
Publisher: Folkways Records.
Published: 1954
Subjects: Drum language; Percussion music; Africans; Music; Blacks; African Americans
Other titles: Afro-American drums
Notes: In container.

Manual sequence.

Program notes by Harold Courlander ([11] p., illus.) inserted in container.

Contains drum rhythms from the Bahamas, Brazil, Congo, Cuba, Equatorial Africa, Haiti, Jamaica, Madagascar, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Ruanda, South Africa, Surinam, United States, and the Virgin Islands.

Title on container of disc 2: Afro-American drums.

Played by native musicians.

Recorded in various places by Leo Verwilghen, André Didier, Moses Asch, Melville J. Herskovits, and others.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1: Ruanda; title: The watutsi; title: Ruanda; title: The watutsi; title: French Equatorial Africa; title: The baya; title: French Equatorial Africa; title: The badouma; title: Nigeria; title: The yoruba; title: Nigeria; title: The yoruba; title: Belgian Congo; title: The bambala; title: Belgian Congo; title: The bambala; title: South Africa; title: The zingili; title: Madagascar; title: The mahafaly. Disc 2: The Bahamas; title: Jumping dance drums; title: Cuba; title: Djuka dance drums; title: Cuba; title: Lucumi drums; title: Haiti; title: Quitta seche dance drums; title: Haiti; title: Juba dance drumming; title: Jamaica; title: Camina drums; title: Brazil; title: Drum rhythms for the deity Eshu; title: Brazil; title: Drum rhythms for the deity Ogoun; title: Virgin Islands; title: Bamboula dance drums; title: Surinam; title: Djuka drums; title: United States; title: Jazz drumming; title: United States; title: Street band drumming.