92:"I asked her to take up the assignment of collecting the folk music that was not yet recorded so as to complete the inventory of our musical soul," said Seaga. "She set about the task with a fervent mission. Every parish was her stomping ground. After several years of compiling a rich collection, she completed that phase of her mission. The next phase was the performance of the music, to open the door wider to this cultural wonderland."
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95:"I wish, I could feel it in my heart, that she was fully recognized in her own life," said Seaga, breaking into tears as his wife Carla moved to comfort him at the podium. "She goes to her grave only partly covered in the glory she deserves.
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138:Beeny Budd: 12 Jamaican Folk-songs for Children
296:The Jamaican Folk Singers - Volume 2 (1971?).
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175:Rock It Come Over: the Folk Music of Jamaica
158:(Washington, DC: OAS), 107 pp., 1 map, 1973.
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