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Caribbean Revels: Haitian Rara and Dominican Gaga

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  1. Click here to play a sound clip! Notre Dame de 7 Doleurs
  2. Click here to play a sound clip! Vapeur
  3. Click here to play a sound clip! Carrefour de Fort
  4. Click here to play a sound clip! Cemetary at Bizoton
  5. Click here to play a sound clip! Tallon
  6. Click here to play a sound clip! Notre Dame de 7 Doleurs
  7. Click here to play a sound clip! Tallon
  8. Click here to play a sound clip! Main Street of Haina
  9. Click here to play a sound clip! Lechuga
  10. Click here to play a sound clip! Andres Boca Chica
  11. Click here to play a sound clip! Elias Pina
  12. Click here to play a sound clip! Haina
  13. Click here to play a sound clip! Haina
  14. Click here to play a sound clip! Andres Boca Chica
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Throughout the week before Easter, roads all over Haiti swell with bands of revelers, dancers, singers and percussionists, travelling from vodou temples to their villages. Rara and gaga are wildly festive sounds, featuring unusual percussion and wind instruments, and often bawdy lyrics. These remastered recordings from the streets, plazas and cemeteries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic are accompanied by extensive notes by Verna Gillis and Gage Averill. The names of the performers were not recorded.

“Rara es el nombre dado a la celebración rural que tiene lugar cada año en Haití entre el Miércoles de Ceniza y el Domingo de Pascua. La selección presentada aquí representa la variedad de música vocal e instrumental que acompaña la danza, las piruetas con bastones y las actividades rituales llevadas a cabo durante el Rara por hombres, mujeres y niños vestidos con brillantes colores. La palabra Gaga es usada en República Dominicana por los haitianos que practican sus propias celebraciones de Rara; la palabra es un término criollo que se aplica a alguien que no se considera esté en un estado mental ‘normal’…”

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