Jamaican creole : tape recordings, 1957-1959.

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Jamaican creole : tape recordings, 1957-1959.

Reel # 43, 1957. Jamaica & British Honduras. Track 1. Songs and stories from Green Island, Port Antonio, and Priory, St. Anns (Jamaica). 2. Song from British Honduras. 3. Mr. Felix speaks about logging in British Honduras. (#2 & 3 dubbed in 1957 from recordings made by A.L. Ayuso, R.B. LaPage, and MacEdward Leach.). Reel # 40, 1958. Jamaica. Track 1. Farewell party for the DeCamps, given by the people of Irish Town at Bermuda Mount (songs, speeches, toasts, pocomania, etc.) 2. Interview with info. 56, Kingston, on subject of the Ras Tafari movement, Dec. 16, 1958. Reel #39, Aug. 27, 1958. Jamaica. Farewell party at Bermuda Mount, given for the DeCamps by the people of Irish Town (cont'd on reel # 40). Reel #41, Aug. 24, 1959. Jamaica. Morant Bay Kumina (Seaga) Drumming and singing by a Kumina band from Morant Bay.

4 sound tape reels: analog, 2 track, mono; 7 in.

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Walters, Keith

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Leach, MacEdward, 1896-1967

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LaPage, R.B.

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DeCamp, David, 1927-1979.

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DeCamp was an American linguist, particularly interested in Pidgins and Creoles. He taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1959 until his untimely death in 1979. From the description of Jamaican creole : tape recordings, 1957-1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863304 ...

Ayusa, A.L.

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