OP45 - Leith, Charles; Titus, Rawle; Baptiste, George;

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2010-06-11T14:16:22Z, 6/1982 - 7/1982

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Charles Leith, George Baptiste and Muriel Crookshank all performed the speech band. Leith played the role of commander and Baptiste played the fiddle. Rawle Titus, a school teacher who has studied anthropology, supervised the Mt. St. George Folk Group which had speech band as an item in the Best Village Competition. Eileen Guillaume was a retired cultural officer. James Murray, a choir master, had a large written collection of Tobago folk songs.

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2 audio cassettes
This resource is available for research. It is the property of the West Indiana and Special Collections Division, The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus.

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Oral Tradition, Tobago, Cultural Heritage: Trinidad and Tobago, Carnival, Calypso, Folklore, Tobago Speech Band, Biographies, Carnival Bands, Speech Bands, Carnival Corales

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