Creole Music Of The French West Indies A Discography 1900-1959 - book preview

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ABOVE AND RIGHT :
Elsie Clews Parsons published the first part of her
collection Folk-Lore of the Antilles, French and English,
in New York in 1933. Martinique was covered in
this volume, while examples of Guadeloupe lore
were in the second, produced in 1936.
LEFT: This recording was made in Paris for the
Université de Paris Archives de la Parole
on 21 December 1926 (Pathé AP 2008)