Volume 1 features native American traditions of North America, including Inuit drum dances, Canadian Haida totem pole ceremony and potlatch and songs and dances of the Kwakiutl; also included are numerous Nez Perce ceremonial and memorial songs, war dance, and soup dance songs; a Flathead hoop dance; Yakima women's songs, a Shoshone hoop dance and war dance.

Volume 2 includes Mexican ranch songs, and hat dance; Cuban folk songs, dialogue songs; from Brazil comes a voodoo gathering, samba, Capoeira, and Candomble, a religious observance; Bolivian folk songs and modern folk songs; Argentinian tangos and gaucho songs.

A 70-page book completes this music and dance picture of traditions from the Americas, and includes descriptions of each performance.

Part of the JVC Video Anthology of Music and Dance of the World. Also available as individual videos.

Also see The JVC Smithsonian Folkways Video Anthology of Music and Dance of the Americas (6 DVD and 6 books) which supplement this regional set.

NOTE: These programs are now presented in archival DVD-r format. "Skip" control advances program in ten minute intervals.

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