Our Kind Of Folk (Disc 4: Carifesta Khondi)

Authors

The National Folk Development Unit of JARAI
Peter Kempadoo, producer
Marc Matthews, producer

Files

Description

Carifesta Khondi: a close-up of the music, dance, arts and way-of-life of the various peoples of the Caribbean and Latin America, comparing and contrasting them with things Guyanese.

Track 1: Carifesta Khondi - St. Lucia (00:30:53)

Track 2: Carifesta Khondi - Jamaica (00:28:48)

Track 3: Carifesta Khondi - Trinidad (00:28:41)

Track 4: Carifesta Khondi - Haiti, etc. (00:27:47)

Track 5: Carifesta Khondi - "Pepper Pot" of various music (00:32:11)

Track 6: Carifesta Khondi - Suriname and Guyana (songs) (00:12:13)

Location

Guyana

Temporal Coverage

1971-1973

Creation Date

2019 (digitized from MiniDisc)

File Format

audio/mpeg

Extent

Duration: 02:40:36

Original Format

MiniDisc magneto-optical disc audio cartridge; Call Number M1688.G9 O87x

Publisher

The National Folk Development Unit of JARAI

City

Georgetown, Guyana

Keywords

Guyana, St. Lucia, Jamaica, Trinidad, Haiti, Suriname, folk music, interviews, oral history, field recordings, Guyanese East Indian, Black, Amerindian

Disciplines

Ethnomusicology | Music | Oral History

Comments

For more information on the Our Kind of Folk recordings, please see the collection page.

Recordings made available by Vibert C. Cambridge, professor emeritus, School of Media Arts & Studies, Ohio University.

Digitization specifications: compressed from .wav format into .mp3 delivery format

Recommended Citation

The National Folk Development Unit of JARAI; Kempadoo, Peter; and Matthews, Marc, "Our Kind Of Folk (Disc 4: Carifesta Khondi)" (2025). Our Kind of Folk (Radio Program). 4.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/okof/4