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Title: Leland/Berger Productions audio-visual materials, 1998

ID: 4000/LELA_4003

Primary Creator: Andrea Leland

Other Creators: Berger, Kathy L.

Extent: 4.0 Boxes. More info below.

Date Acquired: 00/00/1999

Subjects: Garifuna (Caribbean people)--Belize

Abstract

In 1995, filmmaker Andrea E. Leland partnered with Kathy Berger on a collaboration with the Garifuna people of Belize and the United States resulting in the documentary The Garifuna Journey. This collection includes production materials for the documentary including original Beta videocassettes of activities in the village of Barranco, Belize, and footage of a Dügü ceremony in Barranco recorded in the summer of 1996. Included also are sound cassettes of interviews, logs and production notes for the documentary, and videotapes of related Garifuna activities in Chicago.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection consists of production materials for a video documentary The Garifun Journey (1998), including original Beta videocassettes of activities in the village of Barranco, Belize, and footage of a Dügü ceremony in Barranco recorded in the summer of 1996. Included also are sound cassettes of interviews, logs and production notes for the documentary, and videotapes of related Garifuna activities in Chicago.

Collection Historical Note

In 1995, filmmaker Andrea E. Leland partnered with Kathy Berger on a collaboration with the Garifuna people of Belize and the United States resulting in the documentary The Garifuna Journey. Descendants of African and Amerindian ancestors who successfully resisted slavery, the Garifuna emerged with a separate and distinct culture still in existence today.

Subject/Index Terms

Garifuna (Caribbean people)--Belize

Administrative Information

Repository: Center for Black Music Research

Alternate Extent Statement: 4 boxes

Access Restrictions: None

Use Restrictions: None

Physical Access Note: Includes Beta videocassettes, audio cassettes, video recordings, zip disk

Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid edited by Adam Melville, March 6, 2018.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: The Garifuna Journey Project],
[Series 2: Valentina Project],
[Series 3: "Healer and Midwife"],
[Series 4: The Musician's Building (1988)],
[Series 5: Voodoo and the Church in Haiti (1988)],
[Series 6: Jump Up / Mix Up (unfinished)],
[All]

Series 1: The Garifuna Journey Project

Box 1-3

Folder 1: Interviews, logs, production notes, and audio and videotapes

Box 3-4

Folder 2: Dügü ceremony in Barranco, Belize (1996)

Series 2: Valentina Project

Box 1

Folder 1: Notebooks, interviews, transcriptions

Box 2

Folder 2: Videotape interviews, transcriptions, shot list

Box 3-4

Item 1: Valentina 12/2000, 1/24/2001
Item 2: Fidelas (?) 12/2/2000, 3/25/2001
Item 3: Garifuna Settlement Day, 11/11/2000
Item 4: Chicago Nunez family 2/13/2001

Series 3: "Healer and Midwife"

Box 2

Series 4: The Musician's Building (1988)

Box 1-2

Folder 1: notes, including shot list, correspondence, reviews, financial records

Box 3

Folder 2: VHS cassettes with time codes

Box 4

Folder 3: Beta (?) cassettes of original footage

Series 5: Voodoo and the Church in Haiti (1988)

Box 3-4

Folder 1: "Max’s dance" and "Rara"

Folder 2: Sounds, music, and interviews

Item 1: Father Rancourt
Item 2-5: Souvnance: Easter 87
Item 6-7: Cock fight
Item 8-9: St. Marie Church Service (music)
Item 10-16: Interviews with Centre d
Item 17: Port-au-Prince (PAP), Easter 87 street sounds
Item 18-19: Yanick Boulet; Yanick Boulet, Bishop Gayo
Item 20-25: Herard Simon (some copies)
Item 26-33: Max Bouvoir
Item 34-35: St. Marc Hounfor
Item 36-40: Andr
Item 41-42: Armand Oullet, 6-15-86
Item 43-44: Carleson Konzo
Item 45: Katherine Dunham
Item 46: Father Souffrant, Chicago, May 86
Item 47-60: Aboudja (some copies)

Series 6: Jump Up / Mix Up (unfinished)

Box 3

Sub-Series 1: film

Box 1

Sub-Series 2: research notes

Box 4

Sub-Series 3: sound and interviews

Folder 1: Caribana, Toronto

Item 1-2: Trees R Us
Item 3-4: Emerson Myers
Item 5-6: Kaleidoscope of Colour
Item 7-9: Misc. interviews and parade

Folder 2: Nevis, Carnival/Masquerade

Item 10-11: Spenser Byron
Item 12-13: Edwin Martin
Item 14: Livingstone Libard
Item 15-16: Darrell Dore
Item 17: David Freeman String Band
Item 18-19: Jouvet and Parade Audio

Folder 3: New Orleans, Carnival/Masquerade

Item 20: Tutie Montana
Item 21: Don Harrison
Item 22: Larry Bannock
Item 23: Lawrence Fletcher
Item 24: Mardi Gras Day, New Orleans, 2-27-99
Item 25: Medahochi, People
Item 26: John Mason, interview in studio about carnival