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WOSAS/CD387/track4 R1279.wav |
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Monkey Trouble
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Monkey Misery
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| Sound recording, story and saying; Monkey Trouble, a folk tale based on a proverb, from Haiti told by Ben Haggarty, at the Living Crafts exhibition, at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England, 7th May 2006 | |
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| Introduction and crick crack call and response, followed by story told by Ben Haggarty. A story about monkey who tastes something delicious, which he believes is something called trouble, but is in fact honey. Monkey goes on the search for more 'trouble', a search which finally takes him to Papa God. Papa God gives Monkey a sack with a dog in. The story ends with the saying, 'don't trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you'. | |
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| Ben Haggarty originally took this story from Diane Wolkstein's book The Magic Organge Tree, in which Monkey looks for misery. He later heard the story from Rita Ademokum as part of a story collection project run by the West London Storytelling Unit in the 1980s. Rita referred to Monkey searching for trouble and in later tellings of the story by Ben Haggarty, Monkey searches for trouble, rather than misery. | |
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| audience:- | family |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 10 minutes, 8 seconds |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| origin:- | Haiti, Grenada, Caribbean |
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| Ben Haggarty's Hatfield House participant pass | |
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| storytelling:- |
Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England: Hatfield House
07 May 2006 public performance: Living Crafts Exhibition |
| performance recording from:- |
archivist: Kate Norgate |
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