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'''Emerante Morse''', also known as '''Emerante de Pradines Morse''', (born '''Emerante de Pradines''' September 24, 1918<ref>https://muse.jhu.edu/article/668039/summary</ref> – January 6, 2018)<ref>http://www.loophaiti.com/content/deces-de-lune-des-plus-grandes-danseuses-du-folklore-vaudou-haitien</ref> She was the daughter of Haitian entertainer [[Auguste de Pradines]] (better known as Ti Candio or Kandjo),<ref name=oxford16>Richard Morse (2016). 'Pradines, Auguste Linstant de (“Kandjo” or “Candio”)' In: {{cite book |editor-last1=Knight |editor-first1=Franklin W. |editor-link1=Franklin W. Knight |editor-last2=Gates |editor-first2=Henry Louis Jr. |editor-link2=Henry Louis Gates Jr. |title= Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography|date=2016|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199935802 |url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199935796.001.0001/acref-9780199935796-e-1701 |accessdate=5 November 2017 |language=en}} Print {{ISBN|9780199935796}} This biographical article states that Candio was born in Paris, France, on 10 September 1879.
'''Emerante Morse''', also known as '''Emerante de Pradines Morse''', (born '''Emerante de Pradines''' September 24, 1918<ref>https://muse.jhu.edu/article/668039/summary</ref> – January 6, 2018)<ref>http://www.loophaiti.com/content/deces-de-lune-des-plus-grandes-danseuses-du-folklore-vaudou-haitien</ref> She was the daughter of Haitian entertainer [[Auguste de Pradines]] (better known as Ti Candio or Kandjo),<ref name=oxford16>Richard Morse (2016). 'Pradines, Auguste Linstant de (“Kandjo” or “Candio”)' In: {{cite book |editor-last1=Knight |editor-first1=Franklin W. |editor-link1=Franklin W. Knight |editor-last2=Gates |editor-first2=Henry Louis Jr. |editor-link2=Henry Louis Gates Jr. |title= Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography|date=2016|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199935802 |url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199935796.001.0001/acref-9780199935796-e-1701 |accessdate=5 November 2017 |language=en}} Print {{ISBN|9780199935796}} This biographical article states that Candio was born in Paris, France, on 10 September 1879.
</ref><ref name=averill97>{{cite book|last1=Averill|first1=Gage|title=A day for the hunter, a day for the prey: Popular music and power in Haiti |date=1997 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago, Ill.|isbn=9780226032931|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gwEL9mUcVA8C}}
</ref><ref name=averill97>{{cite book|last1=Averill|first1=Gage|title=A day for the hunter, a day for the prey: Popular music and power in Haiti |date=1997 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago, Ill.|isbn=9780226032931|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gwEL9mUcVA8C}}
</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Chapo Ba: Emerante de Pradines|url=http://kreyolicious.com/chapo-ba-emerante-de-pradines/472/|publisher=Kreyolicious|accessdate=30 July 2013}}</ref> de Pradines is a singer, dancer and folklorist.
</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Chapo Ba: Emerante de Pradines|url=http://kreyolicious.com/chapo-ba-emerante-de-pradines/472/|publisher=Kreyolicious|accessdate=30 July 2013}}</ref>. De Pradines was a singer, dancer and folklorist.


==Early life==
==Early life==

Revision as of 03:18, 9 January 2018

Emerante de Pradines Morse
Birth nameEmerante de Pradines
Born(1918-09-24)September 24, 1918[1][2]: 0:11 
Haiti
DiedJanuary 6, 2018(2018-01-06) (aged 99)
GenresHaitian Folk

Emerante Morse, also known as Emerante de Pradines Morse, (born Emerante de Pradines September 24, 1918[3] – January 6, 2018)[4] She was the daughter of Haitian entertainer Auguste de Pradines (better known as Ti Candio or Kandjo),[5][6][7]. De Pradines was a singer, dancer and folklorist.

Early life

Emerante's mother, Amarante Jean Pierre, implored Our Lady of Mount Carmel, patroness of the Carmelite order, to give her a child, a baby girl, "promising that in return she would devote this child to the virgin saint."[1]: 161  Emerante was born when her mother was "on vacation at Rivière Froid".[1]: 163 

Musical and dance career

De Pradines went to Washington, DC, in 1941 as a featured singer and dancer in a troupe led by Lina Mathion Blanchet.[8]: 59  After her return to Haiti, de Pradines performed in a regular concert series at the Rex Theater in Port-au-Prince. She often sang renditions of traditional vodou songs, "then a novelty in Haitian social life".[8]: 59 

De Pradines sang Vodou songs in Creole on the radio when it was dangerous to do so,[9] and was the first Haitian singer to sign a recording contract with a record company.[10] She married Richard M. Morse, a Latin-American scholar and writer from the United States who she met while studying in New York with Martha Graham.[11] Her albums were released internationally, including by Smithsonian Folkways in the United States.[12]

She and her husband had one daughter, Marise, and one son, Richard Auguste.[1] Her son, also known as Richard A. Morse, also became a musician and prominent public figure in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

De Pradines Morse was one of six women profiled in a documentary film by director Arnold Antonin entitled Six Exceptional Haitian Women (Six femmes d’exception).[13]: 19 [14] She was also the focus of a 2017 article in the Journal of Haitian Studies.[1] One commentator wrote that "Given the time in Haitian social history when [Emerante de Pradines] chose to sang vodou songs, popular songs, she stands almost by herself in Haitian history."[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Scherpf, Stephanie (2017). "Emerante de Pradines: The Birth of a Legend and the Making of a Tradition". Journal of Haitian Studies. 23 (1): 162–168. doi:10.1353/jhs.2017.0007.
  2. ^ Haitian Women of History |Emerante de Pradines, Episode 9 (accessed 1 July 2017)
  3. ^ https://muse.jhu.edu/article/668039/summary
  4. ^ http://www.loophaiti.com/content/deces-de-lune-des-plus-grandes-danseuses-du-folklore-vaudou-haitien
  5. ^ Richard Morse (2016). 'Pradines, Auguste Linstant de (“Kandjo” or “Candio”)' In: Knight, Franklin W.; Gates, Henry Louis Jr., eds. (2016). Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199935802. Retrieved 5 November 2017. Print ISBN 9780199935796 This biographical article states that Candio was born in Paris, France, on 10 September 1879.
  6. ^ Averill, Gage (1997). A day for the hunter, a day for the prey: Popular music and power in Haiti. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226032931.
  7. ^ "Chapo Ba: Emerante de Pradines". Kreyolicious. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  8. ^ a b Smith, Matthew J. (2009). Red & black in Haiti radicalism, conflict, and political change, 1934-1957. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807894156.
  9. ^ Grech, Dan. "Into Haiti's Heart: Richard Morse Finds His Roots". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  10. ^ "Morse code: The man behind the amazing Twitter updates from Haiti | Boston Haitian Reporter". bostonhaitian.com. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  11. ^ Romero, Simon. "Richard McGee Morse, 78, Latin America Expert". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  12. ^ Smithsonian Folkways. "Creole Songs of Haiti". Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  13. ^ Hall, Michael R. (2012). Historical dictionary of Haiti. Lanham: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810875494.
  14. ^ Anonymous (June 19, 2017). "Six Exceptional Haitian Women". MEDIA PRAXIS: Integrating Media Theory, Practice and Politics. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  15. ^ Alzuphar, Adolf. "Haitian singer Emerantes De Pradines". zcomm.org. Retrieved 12 November 2017.


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