The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #142660   Message #3290494
Posted By: GUEST,Eliza
14-Jan-12 - 07:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Folk music attacked! War on Kumbaya!
Subject: RE: BS: Folk music attacked! War on Kumbaya!
Have just looked it up on Wikipedia, and it does in fact originate in the Georgian Sea Islands, is in Gullah, a pidgin/creole language, which in turn has origins in the West Indies and before that in Sierra Leone in... WEST AFRICA! Wow! Isn't that fascinating?