Collection : Drums of Defiance : Maroon Music from the Earliest Free Black Communities of Jamaica

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Title: Drums of Defiance : Maroon Music from the Earliest Free Black Communities of Jamaica
Depositor / contributor: Bilby, Kenneth (collecteur)
Document status: Published
Description: Featuring complex, West African influenced drumming and dancing, this little-known rural tradition is at the heart of modern, politically charged reggae music. The conviction heard here reveals a long history of struggle. During the 17th and 18th centuries, some of the Africans brought to Jamaica as slaves escaped to the mountains. There they settled, and over time, they became known as "Maroons." Today, four major Maroon colonies still exist in Jamaica's rugged western Cockpit Country and in the eastern Blue Mountains. Some selections on this recording were previously issued in 1981 on Folkways 4027.
Recording context: Terrain
Recording period: 1981 - 1988
Year published: 1992
Access type: metadata
Corpus: Folkways Records et Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

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Title Livret Description Credits Smithsonian Folkways

	Title	Digitized	Recordist	Location	Year of recording	Code
	Drums of Defiance : Maroon Music from the Earliest Free Black Communities of Jamaica U01			Jamaïque	1981	DI.1994.019.017U01