Internet Resources for People
Interested in Ethnomusicology
By Wendy
Griffin 3/7/2015
As a
resources for how anthropologists and those interested in bilingual
intercultural education look at music, dance, musical instruments, dance
groups, religious and/or healing and agricultural cycle ceremonies with music
and/or dance, traditional music CD’s, traditional dance videos,and traditional
musical instruments as something that is sold to libraries or collected in
museums, relation of war, resistance, popular protests and music and dance,
loss of rainforest hábitat, loss of language, change in religión, immigration,
and how these affect traditional music and dance, and other Internet resources
about Honduran ethnic groups and music and dances, and the connections of
Afro-Honduran dances and ceremonies and stories with sung choruses to those of
Africa I recommend my blog in English:
In addition
to recommendations for good resources related specifically to Honduran Indians
and Afro-Hondurans, including Garifunas, there are also recommendations for
good Internet sources on topics like Wikipedia articles on shamanism,
witchcraft, traditional African medicine, etc. that in traditional societies
are often related to shamanistic music and healing ceremonies. Blogs are
organized by date which can be annoying, but next to the magnifying glass you
can put in a search term like musical instrument, music, dance, or Garifuna,
and just those articles will come up. The official websites of these ethnic
federations and organizations are noted.
Specifically
ethnomusicology related articles were published Feb.2, 2015, Janaury 26, 2015,
January 25, 2015, Janurary 24, 2015, January 20, 2015, December 23, 2014,
December 20,2014, December 12, 2014, December 17, 2014, April 2, 2014, March
29, 2014, African influence in Garifuna language and oral literature including
songs with a chorus December 23, 2014, along with others on this blog.
Mesoamerican Honduran Indians like Mayas, Nahuas, and Lencas are included as
well as Afro-Honduran groups like Garifunas and Miskitos, and rainforest
Indians like the Pech Indians and the Tawahkas.
For example
this blog explains what the Lenca Compostura Ceremony is and then recommends
the video of it as part of the video of Red Comal on the Internet and the audio
recording of the interview with the Lencas about how what they would like to
see incorporated into their intercultural education program is the Compostura
Ceremony which is on the Medios del Pueblo website. This blog gives background
on the Lenca conflict with the Honduran government over the dam at Rio Blanco
on the Rio Gualcarque in the context of Honduran Indian beliefs of who owns the
wáter and the land, and how not using it correctly the spirits will affect
their health and their Access to fish, animals, and rain, and then recommends
the music video of the song to Rio Gualcarque which ends with the names of
Lencas killed in the conflicto with the Honduran government and the comment,
they would have liked to have Heard this song if they were alive on Vimeo.com,
and COPINH’s website.
This is a
good resource to listen to the music ethnomusicologists study. For example, if
you go to the CD’s by Garifuna musicians, you can hear a few minutes of the
different songs and genres for free. Click beside the name of the song.
This is the
preferred website now for profesional movie makers. There were 159 videos about
the Garifunas, including some specifically on Garifuna music groups like
Umalali The Garifuna Women’s Project who were recorded by Stonetree Records of
Belize and did a tour of the US and Canada. Lenca videos include the song to
the Rio Gualcarque.
This is a
photo sharing website. Just for Garifunas there are over 8,000 photos and over
1,000 of them are just of Garifunas drumming. Even people who have worked 20
years with Mayas were surprised by what nice photos of Maya Chorti there were
here.
The
Smithsonian Museum is the combination of 19 different museums of the US
government. Much of their ethnographic collection has been digitalized, so that
if you are looking for say Garifuna
drums or Mayan dance clothes and maracas, you can search online for photos of
them.
The Smithsonian has a special section which
has CD’s of music, Folkways Records. The liner notes of the CD’s, many by
famous ethnographers can be downloaded for free from this part of the website. On
the Folkways Records webpages you can also
listen to a few minutes of the different songs. It is possible to search
by country, so for example there are 88 albums of Papua New Guinea Music. There
is Black Carib (Garifuna) music from Honduras and Belize, including religious
music, and music from the Miskitos and the Ladinos or Mestizos of Honduras.
African countries like Mali and Ghana are well represented too, and there is
Calypso music from Costa Rica. So this is a very rich resource. If you search for Mali both the music of the African country Mali comes up as well as amalijani -mali part of the Garífuna ancestor ceremony of dugu. The current country of Mali is smaller than the old Mali Empire which Wikipedia in English has an interesting article about.
The
Smithsonian Museum has a Project called Recovering Voices to fund bringing
indigenous people, including Latin American Indians, who speak their indigenous
language to the Museum to reconnect with things in the Museum collection, in
their publications, and in their sound recordings. Besides musical instruments,
dance masks were often collected from everywhere.
Burke Museum
at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Here is the link: http://collections.burkemuseum.org/ethnology/ and
in the search box at the bottom of the page type in the following:
%2013-189% and hit the search button. 2013-189 is the accession number assigned
to the objects you donated, and then each object has a unique number, like
2013-189. No - not any catalog remarks show up. This is how to see the Honduran
crafts that Wendy Griffin donated there including Garifuna and Pech Indian
musical instruments. They also have a special collection from Papua New Guinea
that includes musical instruments, masks, and dance paraphanalia. They also have a collection of Guatemalan and
Mexican masks. Go to Ethnology, Browse collections, and then click on the
country like Papua New Guinea or put in a code and search that collection like
Wendy Griffin’s collection, or click on the underlined name of the collection
under the photo like Wallace Papua New Guinea mask Collection.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Crafts_of_Honduras
(including the sub categories)
This is the Internet Address for Honduran Garifuna, Miskito, and Pech Crafts, photos by Leigh Thelmadatter
This is the Internet Address for Honduran Garifuna, Miskito, and Pech Crafts, photos by Leigh Thelmadatter
This is the Internet Address for the Pech Carrizo Flute
in the Burke Museum Collection. Photo by Wendy Griffin
Wikimedia
Commons is the digital image part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects that
also include Wikipedia. Photos of traditional musical instruments and dances or
even videos of these or audio recordings are part of their huge digital
repository. Leigh Thelmadatter and Wendy Griffin have donated images of
traditional Honduran musical instruments and Garifuna dolls wearing traditional
dance outfits to this digital repository, including the rare Pech carrizo flute
about which Wendy Griffin has articles about on her blog.
There are also Wikipedia articles about different ethnic groups and their dances, different musical instruments, music of different countries, articles about famous singers, and articles about their religions for which they dance different dances and different songs. The articles related to the Garífunas and their music and dance and religión need improved and need links. For example most of the popular Garífuna singers like Aurelio Martínez, Paul Nabor, Andy Palacios have Wikipedia articles, but they are not linked to the Wikipedia page about Garífunas or Parranda.
http://www.stonetreerecords.com/albums/ayo.php
The record
Company that records most of the Garifuna music is Stonetree Records of Belize.
They have a very good website describing most of the famous Garifuna musicians,
and some of the styles of music like punta rock. Once you have their names from
this website, it is easy to find the articles, recordings and videos about them
in Wikipedia, Amazon.com, Afropop.com,National Geographic, Youtube, and
Garifuna websites in English like BeingGarifuna.com, Garifuna Coalition in New
York City (a whole page of free musical resources), Garinet.com, GariTV.com,
garistore.com, www.belizeanartist.com. On BeingGarifuna.com in his study of Garifuna
music you can find the Garifuna musicians who have Facebook pages, which seem
to be preferred for reaching their audience instead of more expensive and
complicated traditional webpages.
On the Ayo
(Good bye in Garifuna) page above, it is possible to see a video the Garifunas
of the Garifuna Collective play live most of the different styles of Garifuna
musical instruments, including all the ones that are known to be of African
origin and it shows where the Garifunas live in Belize, and you can listen to
songs, see photos on this website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LM2qAQ2GDA
Don’t
underestimate what you can find on Youtube. I have found everything from Garifunas
dancing Punta in Seattle, to the National Garifuna Folklore Ballet at UCLA, the
late Andy Palacios a Belizean Garifuna talking about his music and why he
fought for the Garifuna language preservation, Trujillo,Honduras traditional
Garifuna dance and music group Los Menudos, dancing several different genres, a
movie by Spanish TV, La Aventura Garifuna with Honduran Garifuna Singer Aurelio
Martinez and Belizean Garifuna buyei and Singer Paul Nabor, already over 80
years old related to their recording of the Parranda Project by Stonetree
Recordsand African harvest festival dances. The video above shows the dances of
the Garifunas , including a Garifuna chugu ancestor ceremony in the Telesur
program Tierra Negra part of the Causa Justa series (reportedly also done by
Afro-Venezuelans according to a Garifuna sailor). The Garifuna women are also
shown making rice and beans in their traditional kitchen and speaking Garifuna.
The video Search for Ciudad Blanca part 4, or
Search for Ciudad Blanca Spanish versión has the music of Garifuna Boyz at the
end of the video. Wendy Griffin is featured as ethnohistorian and Garifuna
guide Roberto Marin highlights the rainforest and its problems. This the
archaeological ruin in Honduras that has been in the news in the US and Europe
laterly.
In the
trailers which are subtitled in either English or in Spanish it is possible to
see the Mascaro or Wanaragua dance which is similar to a Mandiko dance of the
Red Mask of the Old Mali Empire in Africa. The movie has a theme the issue of
culture and language loss among immigrants to the US and in Honduras among
other things. The article about Mandika influence in the Americas that shows that connection to the African dance is available for downloading at the bottom of the Afro-Honduran article in Wikipedia in English.
Wendy
Griffin’s article on Garifuna Immigrants Invisible is on this website as a free
downloadable pdf. It talks about people
and plays and movies that made Garifuna music and dance famous, and thus the
Garifunas less invisible. The Garifuna Music, Dance, and language were declared
Masterpieces of World Intangible heritage by UNESCO, one of only two or three
Afro-Latino groups to receive this designation for their culture. This award
winning movie has 19 cuts of Garifuna music and most of the dances that go with
them, and was judged one of the best 25 foreign movies of 2013 by a movie
critic. (that the directors, writers, producers, actors,and many of the
musicians live in Los Angeles, California says interesting things about who or
what is or is not included as American, here too).
MASTA the
Miskito Organization of Honduras also has an example of a video of a Miskito
Indian playing músic and singing in Miskito on their website. Miskito music
accompanied by guitar is also heard on the Folkways Records site for the
Miskito CD.
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