Recently added articles from Caribbean Quarterly:
FOREWORD
Dec 01, 2007; Nettleford, Rex ... Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 53, Number 4, December 2007 is a special issue entitled "Pioneering Icons of Jamaican Popular Music. It is a collection of papers written by scholars which present to the reader several features of Jamaican popular Music that hitherto have been relatively unexplored ....
INTRODUCTION
Dec 01, 2007; Hutton, Clinton ... This special issue of Caribbean Quarterly titled Pioneering Icons of Jamaican Popular Music commemorates 50 years of Jamaican popular music and the making f the Jamaican recording industry. The six essays bring fresh ideas and insights into some of the critical, agential, socio-political, ...
Calling All Singers, Musicians and Speechmakers : Mento Aesthetics and Jamaica's Early Recording Industry
Dec 01, 2007; Neely, Daniel T ... Introduction In the first half of the twentieth century, Jamaica's music industry lagged behind the rest of the Caribbean. At the same time as Cuban Rumba and Trinidadian Calypso were being recorded, distributed and influencing music from California to the Congo, Jamaican mento, the ...
Forging Identity And Community Through Aestheticism and Entertainment: The Sound System and The Rise Of The DJ1
Dec 01, 2007; Hutton, Clinton ... There would be times when the records playing would, in my estimation, sound weak, so I'd put in some peps: chick-a-took, chick-a-took, chick-a-took. That created a sensation! So there were times when people went to the record shop and bought those records, took them home, and then b[r]ought ...
Ernest Ranglin, Creative Activist, Initiator, Innovator, Living Legend1
Dec 01, 2007; Whylie, Marjorie ... I should luce to share with you a personal testament, a personal review of the varied demonstrations of a musical giant, a gentle genius, a great example of what is right about Jamaica. My comments proceed from listening, observation and appreciation, and are personal, and relate to my musical ...
Punching For Recognition: The Juke Box as a Key Instrument in the Development of Popular Jamaican Music
Dec 01, 2007; Howard, Dennis ... 'Too often only half the story is told And the background, the upheavals and changes the island of Jamaica went through just before and since independence, gets forgotten in the face of so much music" Prince Buster This essay aims to establish the centraiity of the Jukebox as major ...
The Social and Aesthetic Roots and Identity Of Ska
Dec 01, 2007; Hutton, Clinton ... University of the West Indies at Mona Lecturer, Clinton Hutton (C.H.). talks with Jamaican popular music historian-aesthete Garth White (G.W.) about the formative years of Jamaican popular music and the impact these had on him in shaping his own career path as a Jamaican popular music ...
Brown Girl in the Ring: Margarita and Malungu
Dec 01, 2007; Miller, Herbie ... What jungle tree have you slept under, Midnight dancer of the jazzy hour? What great forest has hung its perfume Like a sweet veil about your bower? What jungle tree have you slept under, Night-dark girl of the swaying hips? What star-white moon ...
Review of Exploring the Boundaries of Caribbean Creole Languages
Dec 01, 2007; Harris, Aisha; Williams, Danique ... Review of Exploring the Boundaries of Caribbean Creole Languages. Editors: Hazel Simmons-McDonald and Ian Robertson. Jamaica etc: University of the West Indies Press, This volume is a tribute to Pauline Christie, a Caribbean linguist who has and continues to make valuable contributions ...
Jamaican Folk Medicine - A source of healing
Dec 01, 2007; Bishop, Margaret ... Jamaican Folk Medicine - A source of healingby Arvilla Payne-Jackson and Mervyn C Alleyne. The very attractive green used on the cover of this book appears to illuminate a breadfruit leaf (Artocarpus altilis), which the reader soon learns is widely used as a tea in the treatment of ...
ERRATA
Dec 01, 2007; Anonymous ... P.12 note 9, delete ex P. 17, Para 5 delete 4 replace with 4 P.73. Note 22 emilio /sanchez ...