Caribbean Revels: Haitian Rara & Dominican Gaga

by ISLAND MUSIC

Overview

Rara and Gaga are basically the same thing -- vaudou-related Easter parade music using (traditionally) African-derived single-note shawms, and -- quite often these days -- trumpets and saxes as well as percussion. Gaga is distinct from rara to the extent that the Haitian minority in the Dominican Republic has developed its own traditions. Both branches are exuberantly documented here through street recordings of both traditional and trumpet-led examples. Joyous stuff from a beleaguered people. ~ John Storm Roberts

Product Details

Release Date:	07/13/1992
Label:	Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
UPC:	0093074040225
Rank:	203938

Tracks

1. Notre Dame de 7 Doleurs
2. Vapeur
3. Carrefour de Fort
4. Cemetery at Bizoton
5. Tallon
6. Notre Dame de 7 Doleurs
7. Tallon
8. Main Street of Haina
9. Lechuga
10. Andres Boca Chica
11. Elias Pina
12. Haina
13. Haina
14. Andres Boca Chica

Album Credits

Technical Credits

Joe Gastwirt   Mastering
Verna Gillis   Engineer,Annotation,Liner Notes
Anthony Seeger   Reissue Supervisor
Ramon Perez   Assistant Engineer,Assistant
Joan Wolbier   Design
Gage Averill   Annotation,Liner Notes
Matt Walters   Reissue Supervisor