Saturday, March 20, 2010
Tried by poverty and violence long before the January 12th earthquake, Haiti is also a land of resilient-soul music. Vibrant merengue, carnival songs, vodou chants and the haunted-angel songs of a peasant girl, Francilia — Alan Lomax recorded it all and more, in the field in 1936-37. The recent and gorgeously annotated 10-CD box Alan [...]
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