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The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance of the Americas
Produced by JVC and Multicultural Media, in collaboration with Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, this new sixvideocassette. six book collection includes 158 performances from Canada, the United States, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. The material for this new collection was chosen and approved by an editorial board appointed by Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings. It was licensed from filmmakers in North America, South America, the Caribbean and Europe. The editors searched for the best examples of the musical traditions in the Americas they could find in existing films and professional videotapes of musical and dance performances. They gave preference to "in context" footage; most of the performances are filmed as each style is usually performed in its home community, rather than at folk festivals and other unusual events. They also gave preference to those rural and traditional genres that are rarely heard, yet have often had a strong impact on national and international popular music styles. Licensed from existing footage, the selections are presented without narration for the greatest musical impact. The booklets provide much more background detail than any narration track could provide. Each of the six videotapes is packaged with a booklet, ranging in length from 48 pages to 72 pages. The booklets contain background essays on the music and dance of the regions and countries covered, as well as detailed descriptions of each of the performances. Glossaries, bibliographies, discographies and filmographies are also included. The booklets are bound with a wire binding for ease of use. And each performance is marked with an indexing icon to facilitate locating each performance in the videotape. This new Americas collection consists of all new material from the Americas and does not duplicate any material found in the two volumes on the Americas contained in the JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance. CONTENTS of The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance of the Americas

Volume I- Canada and the United States
Canada: Francophone (FrenchSpeaking) Traditions 11 performances of instrumental, vocal and dance music from Frenchspeaking communities in Canada. Performances consist of fiddling, accordionplaying, guitarplaying, contradance, turlutte(lilting), stepdancing, work songs, reels, quadrilles, and strathspeys. Includes performances by Philippe Bruneau, Jean Carignan, Emile Benoit, Marie D. Deveaux, Audrey StCoeur, Louis Boudreault, Lazare Hebert, Claude Austin, Gerald Fournier, Normand Basque, Arthur Rouleau, Rosaire Laplante, JeanLouis Picard, Gregoire Tremblay and Andre Labbe. Canada: Native & Anglophone (EnglishSpeaking) Traditions 7 performances of instrumental, vocal and dance music from native and Englishspeaking communities in Canada. Performances consist of native vocal games (throatsinging), traditional fiddling, folk songs, a mummer's group house visit, traditional Christmas music from Figgy Duff, a sea shanty, and Meti fiddling and dancing. Includes performances by Inuit natives, Cree fiddlers Ray Spencer and Bob McLeod, Celtic folksingers, mummers, Figgy Duff, Rik Barron and Dave Panting, and Meti fiddler Lawrence Houle with Meti dancers. The United States: AfricanAmerican Secular Traditions A wide representation of rural and urban traditions performed in African American communities in the United States from children's songs to urban blues and gogo dance. 14 performances of instrumental, vocal and dance music. Performances include a children's ring game, bodyslapping and flatfoot dance, blues harmonica and shout, folk blues, Piedmont blues, folk song and Piedmont fingerpicking guitar, traditional jazz, New Orleans brass band, Mardi Gras Indian song, urban blues, rhythm and blues, and GoGo dance. Includes performances by Sea Island children, Sonny Terry, Eddie Kirkland and Neal Pattman, John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, Elizabeth Cotten, Kerrigan Black, Danny Barker, ReBirth Brass Band, The Golden Eagles, Rev. D.A."Gatemouth" Moore, Drink Small, The Legendary Orioles, and The Junkyard Band. 

Volume 2-The United States: European and Other Secular Traditions
26 examples from European and other secular traditions including a wide variety of rural performances as well as a few urban ones. Performances include contradance, ballads, folksong, Appalachian music and stepdancing, string band music, square dance, hook dance, broom dance, hammer dulcimer music, country blues, clawhammer banjo, bluegrass music, Dobro guitar, cowboy music, klezmer music, Hawaiian traditional music, Cajun dancing and song, fiddle sticks, polka, conjunto, ranchera, Texas honkytonk, and salsa. Includes performances by Harold Luce and Vermont dancers, Margaret MacArthur, Roscoe Holcomb, Tommy Jarrell, The Shady Mountain Ramblers, Elmer Davis, Fred Allery, Albert Roussin, John McCutcheon, The Lucas and Harmon Brothers Band, Pappy Sherrill end The Hired Hands, Doc and Merle Watson, Lilly May Ledford, Mike Seeger, Alice Gerrard, The Johnson Mountain Boys, Jerry Douglas, Jean Ritchie, Glenn Ohrlin, Kapelye, The Ho'opi'i Brothers, Dewey Balfa, Rodney Balfa, Tracy Schwarz, Tony Balfa, Michael Doucet, Canray Fontenot, Beausoleil, the Ardoin Family, Gilberto Guiterrez Silva, Grupo Mono Blanco, The Cardenas Brothers, Mingo Saldivar Justin Trevino, Tito Puente, and Charlie Palmieri.  

Volume 3- The US: Sacred Music and Dance African American Sacred Traditions
11 performances include spirituals, hymns, jurer, gospel groups and quartets, sacred harp singing, brass band, and contemporary gospel. Includes performances by Rev. D.A. "Gatemouth" Moore, Moving Hall Star Singers, Clinvin Jones, Cora Fluker, Union Grove Baptist Church, The Landis Family with congregation, The Heavenly Jewels Rev. Al Green, The Four Echoes, Grace Emmanuel Band, Dr. Bobby Jones & New Life. European and Other Sacred Traditions 5 performances include baptism and hymns, gospel duet, country hymn, and bluegrass gospel. Includes performances by Rev. Bobby Akers and congregation, Hazel Dickens, Rev. John and Mrs. Pauline Sherfey, Frances Edmonds and Patsy Edmonds Bowers, and Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys. 

Volume 4- The Caribbean 
The Caribbean is represented by a large number of examples from 14 countries that, together, reveal the richness and variety of the musical cultures of the region. Most of the music is rural and traditional rather than popular, but reveals the roots of contemporary Caribbean popular forms. 32 performances include Tuk band music, santeria, rumba, tumba francesa, simadan, seu celebration children's ring game, jing ping, rare, maroon communal song, jonkonnu, rastafarian song, folk songs, Mento band music, biguines, quadrilles, jibaro music, manpa song, bele, work song, tamboo bamboo music, calinda, baptism rite, parang, calypso/coca, and steelband music. Includes performances by The Troubadors Tuk Band, Florencio Baro, Los Munequitos de Matanzas, Eric La Croes, Petite Soufriere Jing Ping Band, Rastafarian Brethren, The Jamaican Folk Singers, Kali, Bwa Kan' Nel, Familia Colon, Members of La Rose, Ives Simeon, Frank Norville Group, Trinidadian East Indian Masqueraders, Donald McAuley, Andrew Beddoe and Group, United Brotherhood of Time Spiritual, Daisy Voisin & Friends, Denyse Plummer and Kitchener's Review Tent Band, Phase 11 Pan Groove Steelband, and many residents of the island states of the Caribbean. Countries include Antigua, Barbados, Bonaire, Cuba, Curaceo, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Trinidad & Tobago. 

Volume 5 & 6-Central and South America
Central and South America are represented by selected performances (from 10 countries) that reveal general features of the music of this very large region. The examples range from Amazonian Indian to Bossa Nova, with extensive representation of Africaninfluenced traditions in the region, and Andean traditions from Peru. 52 performances on these two videotapes include: the Boom N' Shine Band from Belize; Xavante Indians, Bahians, the Candomble Terreiro, a capoeira group, Batatinha, Gilberto Gil, Djalma Correa, Leci Brendeo, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and carnival performers from Brazil; Pehuenches Intians, Mapuche Indians, and the people of Pocochai from Chile; Arhoacho Indians, a conjunto group, a brass band, Nafer Duran, and a joropo group from Colombia; a shaman from Guatemala; fife and drum ensembles and dancing from Guyana; Mayan Tajimoltik Carnival, Lydia Mendoza, Guadalupe Betancourt, and Los Regionales de Linares from Mexico; children performing purisimas, Los Chinegros de Nindiri, and various dancers and musicians from Nicaragua; Bora Indians, Manguare Indians, a sheperd song, Harawi, water guiding and cleansing ritual, ritual music and dance for marking cattle, dance of the Chunchus, Andean carnival music, festejo, zapateo, Amador Ballumbrosio, Maria Ballumbrosio, Abelardo Vasquez, and a marinera from Peru; Yanomami Indians, Panare Indians, Hoti Indians, a joropo, and a devil dance from Venezuela.

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