Folk Music of Jamaica

This compilation provides a glimpse into the secular and religious musics of Jamaica. Work songs sung to occupy and energize manual laborers are placed side by side with "ring play" which consists of spontaneous song-games played in a circle in the moonlight, sometimes during wakes; Christian cult music of Revival Zion and Pocomania is juxtaposed with "Afro" magico-religious cult music kumina.

Track Listing

101	Kumina "Country" Songs (1)	Kumina singers	02:13
102	Kumina "Country" Songs (2)	Kumina singers	03:15
103	Kumina "Country" Songs (3)	Kumina singers	03:10
104	Kumina "Bailo"	Kumina singers	02:30
105	Work Songs (1)	Kumina singers	01:44
106	Work Songs (2)	Kumina singers	03:08
107	Ring Play (1)	Kumina singers	02:15
108	Ring Play (2)	Kumina singers	03:05
201	Zion "Chorus" (1)	Kumina singers	01:47
202	Zion "Bands Chorus" and "Blowing" (1)	Kumina singers	01:38
203	Zion "Bands Chorus" and "Blowing" (2)	Kumina singers	01:22
204	Zion "Chorus" (2)	Three female members of the group	01:40
205	Zion "Groaning"	Kumina singers	01:37
206	Pukkumina Prayer	Kumina singers	02:16
207	Pukkumina "Chorus"	Kumina singers	01:43
208	Pukkumina, 3 Cymbals	Kumina singers	02:21
209	Pukkumina Cymbal	Kumina singers	08:05