Guide to Garifuna Language Materials
By Wendy Griffin January 2015
Part V--Common
Sources of Garifuna language recorded materials
Smithsonian’s Folkways Records (4 CD’s) Includes one
Garifuna ceremonial music CD. Also includes a CD of work songs, of which there
are several genres among Garifuna men and women. Includes the first albumn
recorded in Honduras, Doris Z. Stone’s albumn, now CD, from 1954 of the Black
Caribs of Honduras.
www.garistore.com
(This is particularly helpful in that you can see what genres of Latin and
Caribbean Music Garífunas sing in besides traditional Garifuna music.)
Record store in
Bronx, New York City noted on the New York City based Garifuna blog www.beinggarifuna.com His music study of Garifuna music and
musicians is very interesting.
www.Amazon.com (over 100 CD’s in various genres)
Garifuna themed store in Los Angeles
www.stonetreerecords.com
Belize’s only record company.
Youtube Look
for names of Garifuna musicians or Garifuna musical groups. The documentary made of Aurelio Martinez’s
life and which includes 80 year Garifuna parranda singer Paul Nabor from Belize
by Spanish TV Aventura Garifuna was cut up into parts and put on Youtube.
Usually you don’t know what Garifuna songs mean, but this video subtitles the
songs in Spanish including Nuguñanei (big sister) by Paul Nabor and Aurelio
Martinez’s Africa. Paul Nabor explains
how he came to write Nuguñanei at the time of his sister’s death and at her
request, and how he wants the whole town to sing it when he dies. It has become
the theme song of Punta Gorda, Belize. There are several good versions of Honduran
Garifuna Aurelio Martinez singing his song “Africa” on the Internet, but this
version in a small hut by the sea
surrounded by Garifunas and with subtitles in Spanish that show that he says, “Some
of my people forget their race, but I am going to go to the beaches where my
forefathers left their footprint Oh, Africa, I will never forget, Oh Africa,” brings tears to my eyes.
The song was written for when he applied for the Rolex
scholarship to study music with a World Music legend in Senegal, which he got.
When the song was sung in New York to Garifunas there, the Garifunas were on
their feet. Teofilo Colon of BeingGarifuna.com said “It was electric. You
should have been there.”
NPR reports on famous Garifuna musicians, generally
those that record with Stonetree records, like Paul Nabor usually have
recordings of two or three songs that you can listen to the on the Internet.
www.Vimeo.com In 2013 159 Garifuna movies on Vimeo.
Search for Garifuna Bible in google and various
websites with audio recordings related to recordings of the Garifuna Bible that
you can hear for free will come up.
Costa Norte Records of Honduras produces the music of
Guillermo Anderson, Honduras’s Cultural Ambassador. While he is Ladino, usually
his back up band is mostly Garifuna percussion. Aurelio Martinez got his
professional start as back up musician for Guillermo Anderson, and his first
band Lita Ariran (Black Rooster) were mostly the percussion section of
Guillermo Anderson’s band. Guillermo Anderson is more popular in Europe than in
the US and in Europe his music is classified as “World Music”.
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