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Collection Overview
Abstract
Oliver N. Greene, Jr. is an associate professor of music at Georgia State University where he teaches courses on traditional world music, the popular music of select countries and carnival traditions of the Americas. This collection consists of audio and video tapes documenting music, dance and culture of the Garifuna people in Belize, including interviews, Wanaraua and Charikanari dances, drum making, singing, and the Dugu ritual.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Audio and video tapes documenting music, dance and culture of the Garifuna people in Belize, including interviews, Wanaraua and Charikanari dances, drum making, singing, and the Dugu ritual.
Collection Historical Note
Oliver N. Greene, Jr., a native of LaGrange, GA, is an associate professor of music at Georgia State University where he teaches courses on traditional world music, the popular music of select countries and carnival traditions of the Americas, and has produced numerous world music shows and published articles in the Black Music Research Journal (2002, 1999), Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of Music (2005), and the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (1998) and Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (2008), as well as in the book The Garifuna: A Nation Across Borders (2005). As a recipient of a Rockefeller fellowship at the CBMR in Chicago in 2000, he conducted fieldwork and research on the relationships between art, dance and music in the expression of ethnic identity in the wanaragua (Jankunú) ritual of the Garifuna of Belize. He has also conducted research on popular music and ancestor veneration rituals of the Garifuna in Belize and Honduras. In 2007 he produced the documentary film, “Play, Jankunú Play: The Garifuna Wanaragua Ritual in Belize.”
Biographical Note
Oliver N. Greene, Jr., a native of LaGrange, GA, is an associate professor of music at Georgia State University where he teaches courses on traditional world music, the popular music of select countries and carnival traditions of the Americas, and has produced numerous world music shows and published articles in the Black Music Research Journal (2002, 1999), Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of Music (2005), and the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (1998) and Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (2008), as well as in the book The Garifuna: A Nation Across Borders (2005). As a recipient of a Rockefeller fellowship at the CBMR in Chicago in 2000, he conducted fieldwork and research on the relationships between art, dance and music in the expression of ethnic identity in the wanaragua (Jankunú) ritual of the Garifuna of Belize. He has also conducted research on popular music and ancestor veneration rituals of the Garifuna in Belize and Honduras. In 2007 he produced the documentary film, “Play, Jankunú Play: The Garifuna Wanaragua Ritual in Belize.”
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Center for Black Music Research
Alternate Extent Statement:
(26 tapes)
Access Restrictions:
None
Use Restrictions:
None
Physical Access Note:
Includes audio and video recordings
Finding Aid Revision History:
Finding aid edited by Adam Melville, March 6, 2018.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Series 1: Audio tapes
- Sub-Series 1: Drumming lessons
- Item 1: Egbert Garcia; 1st Drumming Lesson (6/10/1996)
- Item 2: Roy Garcia; 2nd Drumming Lesson Backup
- Sub-Series 2: Interviews
- Item 1: Jerris Valentine-Drummer/singer (8/14/1996)
- Item 2: Garifuna Ethnicity Part 1 with Fabian Cayetano, Education Officer (6/13/1996)
- Item 3: Garifuna Ethnicity Part 2 with Fabian Cayetano (7/1/1996)
- Item 4: Garifuna Ethnicity Part 1 with Jerris Valentine (8/15/1996)
- Item 5: Garifuna Ethnicity Part 2 with Jerris Valentine (8/15/1996)
- Item 6: John Mariano Part 1 of Master List Interview (7/6/1996)
- Item 7: John Mariano Part 2 of Master List Interview (7/8/1996)
- Item 8: Barbara Norales on Punta Rock (8/19/2000)
- Item 9: Ethnicity in Belize with Sebastian Cayetano (8/20/1996)
- Item 10: Taigi & Lupe; Wanaragua Drummers and Costume Makers (8/27/2000)
- Item 11: Roy Cayetano; Wanaragua (8/28/2000)
- Item 12: Performances in Garifuna Secular Music Part 1 with John Mariano (5/10/1996)
- Item 13: Wanaragua in Dangriga Part 1 with John Mariano (8/19/2000)
- Item 14: Wanaragua in Dangriga Part 2 with John Mariano (8/21/2000)
- Series 2: Videotapes
- Item 1: Garifuna Workshop On Wanaragua And Other Aspects Of The Culture
- Item 2-3: John Mariano Dressing for Wanaragua
- Item 4: Charikanari Procession (2 Foot Cow, Devil and Women)
- Item 5: Garifuna Drum Making & Traditional Dance
- Item 6: Dana Cultural Dancers, Beluria, Cassava
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