The Leon Gontran Damas Sound Recording Collection [sound recording]

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The Leon Gontran Damas Sound Recording Collection [sound recording]

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The Léon Gontran Damas Recorded Sound Collection consists primarily of noncommercial recordings of radio broadcasts made during his travels to Africa, France, and the United States etc.; as well as one commercial LP audio recording, "Poesie de la Negritude" by Leon G. Damas. The noncommercial material consists of interviews with Damas and others; poetry readings, and lectures by Damas and various other artists; drum music and traditional music from French Guinea and Sub-Saharan Africa. The collection includes the works of Guy Tirolien, Bernard Dadie, Jacques Rabemananjara, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Bob Stokes, Eugene Miller, Jayne Cortez and others.

49 sound discs (in 46 cases) analog, digital, stereo 4 3/4 in.; 1 sound disc 33 1/3 rpm 12 in.; 49 Archival original cases in various reel to reel formats and sizes; 1 Hard Drive of partial collection (21 discs) :

The New York Public Library. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

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Cortez, Jayne

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Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001

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Damas, Léon-Gontran, 1912-1978

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Born in Cayenne, French Guiana, in 1912, Léon-Gontran Damas was a poet, journalist, educator and statesman who co-founded the Négritude literary movement in the 1930's with the Matinique born poet Aimé Césaire and the Senegalese author and statesman Léopold Sédar Senghor. Damas studied modern oriental languages, literature, history and ethnology, and began his career in journalism and literature in Paris in the 1930's. His first volume of poems, Pigments, appeared in 1937. He served briefly in t...

Brown, Sterling Allen, 1901-1989

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Tirolien, Guy

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