Two Evenings in Saramaka

Download or read book Two Evenings in Saramaka written by Richard Price and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-05-07 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the more general context of tale telling by the descendants of Africans throughout the Americas and of recent scholarship in performance studies, these Saramaka tales are presented as a dramatic script. With the help of nearly forty photographs, readers become familiar not only with the characters in folktale-land, but also with the men and women who so imaginatively bring them to life. And because music complements narration in Saramaka just as it does elsewhere in Afro-America, more than fifty songs are presented here in musical notation.