The bawdy and saucy songs of the Antilles-Guyana
Audio 29:00
The ethnomusicologist Esther Eloidin © Yaël Caux / RFI
By: Pascal Paradou
30 mins
"Since the 15th century, the bawdy song that says what is not said, offers a variety of subjects from the problems of our societies" assures the Martinican ethnomusicologist Esther Eloidin.
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Currently in the process of writing a thesis on the subject, she is publishing a book for which she has identified, collected and transcribed around sixty West Indian songs dating from the 18th and 21st centuries, sung during carnivals, communal or friendly celebrations.
Four centuries of saucy and bawdy songs in the Antilles-Guyana
, is published by Caribéditions
And the column "Elsewhere", with Geneviève Pelletier, takes us to Winnipeg, Canada, to discover a call for applications for artists from the Francophonie.
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