Our Kind Of Folk (Disc 7)

Authors

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

Files

Description

Track 1: Amerindian stories by Benjamin Sandy (00:14:52)
Track 2: Roots and Rhythms (00:26:21)
Track 3: Pujah at Triumph (00:09:04)
Track 4: Pujahat at Cotton Tree (00:09:28)
Track 5: Interview with Mr. Ramrattan - Cove and John on planting, growing , and marketing of crops (00:15:40)
Track 6: Jokes with Benjy and interview (00:22:41)
Track 7: Mr. Holder first impressions of Bartica recollections of pork knockers days and ex as a pork knocker (00:34:37)
Track 8: Talking about singers in village and youth problems, unemployment problems etc. with Shirley and a young man. (00:19:01)

Location

Hopetown, Guyana; Bushlot, Guyana; Bartica, Guyana

Temporal Coverage

1971-1973

Creation Date

2019 (digitized from MiniDisc)

File Format

audio/mpeg

Extent

02:31:47

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, folk music, folk stories, interviews, oral history, field recordings, Guyanese East Indian, Black, Amerindian, pork knocker

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 7)" (2025). Our Kind of Folk (Radio Program). 7.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/okof/7