Finding Aids to Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture

PANAMA COLLECTIONS
IN THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE

Series Editor: Ann Hoog

AFS 6893-6894: Myron B. Schaeffer Collection of Music from Panama
Two discs of "canto Indio," a tamborito entitled "Florecita Blanca," and a variant of a tamborito called "Y Orele, orela." Recorded in Panama by Myron Schaeffer, ca. 1943. Recorded ca. 1943.

AFS 7318-7323: Myron B. Schaeffer Collection of Music from Panama
Six 12-inch discs of music recorded in Panama by Myron Schaeffer, January and July, 1943. Includes decima, cumbia, suest, violin and guitar music, drum demonstrations, songs, The collection includes a song list.

AFS 7653-7720: Myron B. Schaeffer Collection of Music from Panama
Twenty-six 10-inch and 42 12-inch discs of folk music of Panama. Recorded in Panama by Myron B. Schaeffer during 1943 and 1944. The collection includes a song list for AFS 7653-7697 (data sheets from the Instituto de Investigaciones Folkloricas, Archivo de la Discoteca, Universidad Interamericana, Panama). Texts for some of the songs are transcribed in an article by Louise Cramer entitled "Songs of West Indian Negroes in the Canal Zone," California Folklore Quarterly V, no. 3 (July 1946): 243-272.

AFS 9998-10,001: Per Host / San Blas Indians of Panama
Four wire spools of folk music of San Blas Indians off coast of Panama. Recorded by Per Host of Panama. (LWO 1322; RZA 2101; tape copy on LWO 25,707)

AFS 10,028: Per Host / Folk Music of Colombia, South America
One 7-inch tape of music and other sounds from the rainforest region of Colombia and Panama, including Choco Indian children's songs, a medicine man's song, and howler monkey noises. Recorded on the border of Colombia and Panama, by Per Host, 1949. (1 hour; LWO 1573)