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⏲ Duration: 11 min 3 sec
✓ Published: 19-Apr-2012
✓ Published: 19-Apr-2012
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Ra-Ra embraces traditions of music, instruments, dance, costumes, vodou ceremonies and processions that date back to slavery and has many roots in West Africa.With their own special instruments and double-entendre songs, Ra-Ra bands roam the countryside during the week leading up to Good Friday when they all converge in towns like Leogane.This 18 minute video doc was produced for the path-breaking exhibit of Haitian Art at the Brooklyn Museum in 1978.Verna Gillis did much of the original r
Ra-Ra embraces traditions of music, instruments, dance, costumes, vodou ceremonies and processions that date back to slavery and has many roots in West Africa.With their own special instruments and double-entendre songs, Ra-Ra bands roam the countryside during the week leading up to Good Friday when they all converge in towns like Leogane.This 18 minute video doc was produced for the path-breaking exhibit of Haitian Art at the Brooklyn Museum in 1978.Verna Gillis did much of the original r
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