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The sources utilized in this listing are fourfold: the personal archives
of the compilers; library facilities and holdings at the Bibliothèque
Nationale de France, département de l’Audiovisuel; the British Library
Sound Archive; and collaboration with other libraries and recording
experts.
There has been considerable effort to minimise omissions, but the dis-
parate nature of the information allows that some particulars have es-
caped attention. This is specially pertinent for small record companies
based in the French Caribbean during the 1950s, that released locally
recorded vernacular performances on 78-rpm pressings manufactured
in France, but for which catalogue and other information is difficult
to locate.
Supplementary information and correction of errors will be received
with gratitude.
Alain Boulanger
John Cowley
Marc Monneraye
1
Mirror
(Trinidad), 28 August 1914, p. 7
2
Elsie Clews Parsons,
Folk-Lore Of The Antilles, French And English
, New York, American
Folklore Society: Part I [Trinidad, Grenadines (Grenada, Carriacou), St. Vincent, St.
Lucia, Martinique, Dominica], 1933; Part II [Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, Marie Galante,
Montserrat, Antigua, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Eustatius, Saba, St. Bartholomew, St. Martin,
Anguilla, St. Croix, St. Thomas, Haiti], 1936; Part III [Bibliography and abbreviations;
Summaries of the Tales with bibliographical references; Riddles Index by subject, with
bibliographical references; Proverbs], 1943. For particulars of the field trips see her
‘Preface’ to the first volume, pp. v-viii; and Desley Deacon,
Elsie Clews Parsons: Invent-
ing Modern Life
, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997, pp. 288-289, 297, 304, 306
3
Victor Coridun,
Folklore martiniquais. Le carnival de St-Pierre (Martinique)
, [1
ére
édition],
Fort-de-France, Imprimerie R. Illemay, 1930
4
For these instances see respectively the entries for
Dynah Mockey, Soumah Mangué
et sa Troupe
, and
Jo Tchad
ABOVE
:
Odéon Nouveautés
, janvier 1957, p. 6
RIGHT
: This catalogue includes Antilles recordings
made in Paris that were marketed
in French-speaking Africa.