Category: haiti

Tanbou Toujou Lou: Meringue, Kompa Kreyol, Vodou Jazz, & Electric Folklore from Haiti 1960 – 1981

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Ostinato Records released Tanbou Toujou Lou.
Here is a sampler:
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The Afropop review.

Also, Afropop(CC Smith and Gerard Tacite Lamothe) republished their research from 1986 in Haiti, as a kind of companion to Ostanito’s Tanbou and Strut’s Haiti Direct.

Also Ostinato has this 44 mins set – Afrophonia Vol. 2 1968 – 1982: Black Atlantic Rhythms from Cuba to Angola
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KCRW’s Rhythm Planet has this nice set.

four star accommodations with sound

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Sans Souci

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More attitude than residence.

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Le fils du commandant Rosier-By.

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Ruines du Palais de Sans-Souci, a Milot (exterieur).

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The ruins of Christophe’s palace of Sans Souci.

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The summer residence of the emperor at Potsdam.

Public Domain at NYPL

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Browsing through the Public Domain Collection of the NYPL. There is a residency attached to this project.

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Carte hydrogeologique de la Republique d’Haiti. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division

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Le véhicule, chargé de négresses…(sounds like Room Full, Paul!) Paul Reboux, 1919. Schomburg General Research and Reference Division

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Saint-Domingue a la veille de la revolution.

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Le Champ-de-Mars a Port-au-Prince ; La foule a l’inauguration de la statue de Dessalines. Sténio Vincent(president 1930-1941), 1910.

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L’arbre de justice, a l’ombre duquel le Roi Christophe jugeait parfois ses sujets. 1926

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Philippe Guerrier, président d’Haïti. (1844-1845). Nouvelle géographie de l’île d’Haïti: contenant des notions historiques et topographiques sur les autres Antilles, par Dantès Fortunat. 1888

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The caco (guerilla fighter opposed to the US occupation of Haiti, led by François Borgia Charlemagne Peralte) in the foreground killed an American Marine. Harry Alverson Franck, 1920.

World’s Columbian Exposition.

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Haiti Building
Haiti Building. World’s Columbian Exposition.

Foreign Buildings
“Foreign Buildings,” consisting of images of the Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, & Haiti buildings. From Columbian Gallery: A Portfolio of Photographs of the World’s Fair by The Werner Company. 4 photographs from a series. 1893.

via Field Museum.

Lecture on Haiti, The Haitian Pavilion Dedication Ceremonies Delivered at the World’s Fair, in Jackson Park, Chicago, Jan. 2d, 1893
By the Honorable Frederick Douglass.