| Description |
xx, 618 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations, music ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Africa's mark in the western hemisphere -- The inheritance in Cuba -- Some Yoruba legends in Cuba -- Lucumi (Yoruba) liturgical music in Cuba -- Rites of the Abakwa secret society -- Haitian religious traditions : Vodoun -- Two Vodoun rituals -- Two Haitian drum rhythms -- Haiti's political songs : comments on the mighty -- Haitian tales : gods, tricksters and others -- Haitian animal tales -- The Creole language -- Some Haitian proverbs -- Negro song poetry in Puerto Rico -- Four tales from Guadeloupe -- Two old slave songs from Carriacou -- The Bamboula dance, myth and reality -- Preacher tales I the Caribbean -- West Indian Calypso -- Some tales with African themes from the English-speaking Islands -- Tales of cuckolds and rakes -- Others tales from the English-speaking islands -- Jamaican alphabet game -- One bright summer morning -- Some ballads from the Bahamas -- African-derived religious motifs in Jamaica -- The Ras Tafari movement in Jamaica -- About the Maroons of Jamaica -- Two tales from accompong -- Some Trinidadian healing remedies -- Song of a household slave in Mexico -- The black Caribs of British Honduras -- Surinam : coast people and bush negroes -- Djuka song from the Surinam bush -- Some proverbs of the Saramacca bush-negroes of Surinam -- Lobi singi from Paramaribo -- Some Surinam tales -- Three party songs from Guyana -- Four Afro-Venezuelan tales -- The Afro-Venezuelan Mampulorio -- The myth of Maria Lionza -- Three Afro-Venezuelan songs -- Brazil : the Palmares story -- African religious survivals in Brazil -- Zetu ceremony honoring the deity Yansan -- Some Brazilian cult songs to Yoruba deities -- Melody of a Brazilian cult song -- A cult festival, as reported in the press -- Some words of African origin in Brazilian-Portuguese speech -- The man who took a water mother for his bride -- Brazil : the way of Batucada -- Afro-American lore, oral literature and folk music in the United States -- The situation of the blacks as seen by nineteenth-century chroniclers -- Epitaph of a slave-- Traditions and recollections in the Sea Islands -- The Bilali document -- The Gullah speech of the coastal region -- Three tales in Gullah dialect -- Uncle Remus confronts the coastal dialect -- Sea Island riddles -- Spirituals and religious epics -- As the spirituals are sung -- From the pulpit -- The religious shout -- On the making of songs -- Evolution of a plantation song -- The John Henry epic -- Some traditional black ballads -- Worksons : road gangs and prison camps -- Some miscellaneous old beliefs -- A Mississippi sharecropper, 1954 -- Recollections of old master and John -- Plantation proverbs -- Justice, injustice and ghosts in the swamps of the Congaree -- Churches, preachers, and deacons -- Testing wits : Buh rabbit, Buh fox, and other creatures -- Testing wits : human vs. demon -- Moralizing tales -- The beginning of things -- Some familiar proverbs -- An Alabama storyteller and bard -- The tub with the ancient antecedents -- The Carolina yell and far from home -- Boasting and big old lies -- Richard creeks on conjuring and doctoring -- Some ring and line games from Alabama -- African dancing in New Orleans -- "Voodoo" rituals in new Orleans -- Congo Square -- Creole tales from Louisiana -- Three Creole ballads -- New Orleans superstitions. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [602]-610. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Folklore.
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| Added Author |
Courlander, Harold, 1908-1996.
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| Added Title |
Afro-American folklore |
| ISBN |
1569248117 |
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