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, drummers	02:13
102	Kumina "Country" Songs (2) Kumina singers, drummers	03:15
103	Kumina "Country" Songs (3) Kumina singers, drummers	03:10
104	Kumina "Bailo" Kumina singers, drummers	02:30
105	Work Songs (1) Laborers singing with pick-axes	01:44
106	Work Songs (2) Laborers singing with pick-axes	03:08
107	Ring Play (1) Men, women, and children playing ring-game	02:15
108	Ring Play (2) Men, women, and children playing ring-game	03:05
201	Zion "Chorus" (1) Revival Zion church members	01:47
202	Zion "Bands Chorus" and "Blowing" (1) Revival Zion church members	01:38
203	Zion "Bands Chorus" and "Blowing" (2) Revival Zion church members	01:22
204	Zion "Chorus" (2) Revival Zion church members	01:40
205	Zion "Groaning" Revival Zion church members	01:37
206	Pukkumina Prayer Pocomania revivalists	02:16
207	Pukkumina "Chorus" Pocomania revivalists	01:43
208	Pukkumina, 3 Cymbals Pocomania revivalists	02:21
209	Pukkumina Cymbal Pocomania revivalists	08:05