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