MORE INFORMATION
If you are interested in finding out more about the history that we covered in this project listed below are some links you may find useful.
VIDEOS - WEBSITES - JOURNALS & ARTICLES - OTHER
If you are interested in finding out more about the history that we covered in this project listed below are some links you may find useful.
VIDEOS - WEBSITES - JOURNALS & ARTICLES - OTHER
VIDEOS
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Dambe - The Mail Project
Irish musicians Liam Ó Maonlaí (Hothouse Flowers) and Paddy Keenan (Bothy Band) embark on a musical journey to the heart of Africa, Mali. |
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The Black Irish of Montserrat
A Radharc report from 1976 about the Black Irish of Montserrat. Irish people exiled by Cromwell and African slaves arrived on Montserrat at about the same time. |
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The Other Emerald Isle
Two short clips from the 1986 documentary The Other Emerald Isle, about the 'black Irish' of Montserrat in the Caribbean. It was presented by Michael D. Higgins, at that time a lecturer in University College, Galway, later the President of Ireland. The first clip is part of the introduction, the second is a song from blind Moses Fenton in his rum shop. The film tells the story of Ireland's involvement in slavery, a St. Patrick's Day revolt when slaves and their Irish overseers rose against their English masters, the culture and music of the island. |
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Montserrat: Emerald of the Caribbean
This documentary focuses on the 2005 St. Patrick's Day festivities of the Caribbean island of Montserrat. To view the rest of this documentary click on this link. |
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5 Traditional African Dances
Communities in Africa use traditional dances to teach, to socialize, to celebrate festivals and when mourning at funerals. Other dances are exclusively used for ceremonial purposes, for spiritual and religious practices. |
WEBSITES
Banjology - the fascinating history of the banjo in the Caribbean.
The Dread Library - a selection of essays on reggae music and its various social, political, and religious manifestations.
Mento Music - the history of Jamaican mento music by Michael Garnice, with articles and media files.
Musical Passage - this website offers an interpretation of the music recorded in Hans Sloane's "Voyage to the Islands of Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica" written in 1707. On a single page within this book is the notation of music performed at a gathering of black musicians in Jamaica. A collaborative project by Laurent Dubois, David Garner, and Mary Caton Lingold.
Standing Stones - home page of musicians the Standing Stones (Michael Robinson and Vicki Parrish), the website has a wealth of information on traditional Celtic (Irish and Scottish) music.
Banjology - the fascinating history of the banjo in the Caribbean.
The Dread Library - a selection of essays on reggae music and its various social, political, and religious manifestations.
Mento Music - the history of Jamaican mento music by Michael Garnice, with articles and media files.
Musical Passage - this website offers an interpretation of the music recorded in Hans Sloane's "Voyage to the Islands of Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica" written in 1707. On a single page within this book is the notation of music performed at a gathering of black musicians in Jamaica. A collaborative project by Laurent Dubois, David Garner, and Mary Caton Lingold.
Standing Stones - home page of musicians the Standing Stones (Michael Robinson and Vicki Parrish), the website has a wealth of information on traditional Celtic (Irish and Scottish) music.
JOURNALS & ARTICLES
A number of articles and resources that were used to research the project are available online, they are listed below with links to retrieve them.
Bilby, K. (2001) “Maroon Autonomy In Jamaica” in Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine. Available at: https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/maroon-autonomy-jamaica
Brannen, J., Elliott, H., Phoenix, A. (2016) “Narratives of success among Irish and African Caribbean migrants” in Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39:10, 1755-1772, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2015.1124125
Emmick, M. S. (1995) “Scottish and Irish Elements of Appalachian Fiddle Music” in Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection, 21. Available at: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/21
Fergus (2016) “The Irish Banjo” in The Irish Place. Available at: https://www.theirishplace.com/traditional-irish-music/the-irish-banjo/
Fields, L. (2011) “4-string Banjo in Jamaican Mento Music” in Banjo Hangout. Available at: https://www.banjohangout.org/blog/24475
Foner, N. (2008) “Gender and Migration: West Indians in Comparative Perspective” in Wiley Online Library. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2008.00480.x
Gangelhoff, C. (2013) “Art-Music by Caribbean Composers” in At The Barbados Archives. Heritage: Art Music by Bajan Composers. Available at: https://atthebarbadosarchives.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/heritage-art-music-by-bajan-composers/
Garnice, M. (2018) “What is Mento Music?” in Mento Music. Available at: http://www.mentomusic.com/WhatIsMento.htm
Goulbourne, H. (2018) “Windrush and the making of post-imperial Britain” in British Library. Available at: https://www.bl.uk/windrush/articles/windrush-and-the-making-of-post-imperial-britain
Grace, J. (n.d.) “Do You Remember the Days of Slavery? A Study of the Oppression of the Jamaican Working Class 1834-1942” in The Dread Library. Available at: https://debate.uvm.edu/dreadlibrary/grace.html
“History Notes: Information on Jamaica's Culture and Heritage” in The National Library of Jamaica. Available at: https://nlj.gov.jm/history-notes-jamaica/
Hogan, L., McAtackney, L., Reilly, M. C. (2016) “The Irish in the Anglo-Caribbean: servants or slaves?” in History Ireland. Published in 18th-19th Century Social Perspectives, Issue 2, Vol. 24. Available at: https://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/18th-19th-century-social-perspectives/the-irish-in-the-anglo-caribbean-servants-or-slaves/
Kauppila, P. (2006) “From Memphis to Kingston: An Investigation into the Origin of Jamaican Ska” in Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 55, No. 1-2, pp. 75-91. Available at: https://openmusiclibrary.org/article/64600/
“Jamaica’s Heritage in Music” (2018) in The Jamaica Information Service. Available at: https://jis.gov.jm/information/jamaicas-heritage-dance-music/jamaicas-heritage-music/
“Jamaica’s Heritage in Dance” (2018) in The Jamaica Information Service. Available at: https://jis.gov.jm/information/jamaicas-heritage-dance-music/jamaicas-heritage-dance/
Lingold, M.C. (2017) “Peculiar Animations: Listening to Afro-Atlantic Music in Caribbean Travel Narratives” in Early American Literature 52(3), 623-650. DOI: 10.1353/eal.2017.0052.
Marcus, T. (n.d.) “Harmony and Howling - African and European Roots of Jamaican Music” in The Dread Library. Available at: https://debate.uvm.edu/dreadlibrary/marcus.html
“Maroon Expressive Culture - Music, Dance, and Songs” (2016) in Jamaican Maroons. Available at: http://www.grannynannymaroons.com/maroon-expressive-culture-music-dance-and-songs/
McClatchy, D. (2000) “Appalachian Traditional Music - A Short History” in Musical Traditions Internet Magazine. Available at: http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/appalach.htm
McDowell, L. (2018) “How Caribbean migrants helped to rebuild Britain” in British Library. Available at: https://www.bl.uk/windrush/articles/how-caribbean-migrants-rebuilt-britain
“Mento purely home-grown” in Jamaica Gleaner. Published: 6 July 2014. Available at: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20140706/ent/ent6.html
Merriam, A.P. (1960) “Ethnomusicology: Discussion and Definition of the Field”. Published by: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology. DOI: 10.2307/924498. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/924498
Moloney, M. (1986) “The Banjo - A Short History” in O'Connor, G., McNevin, D. 50 Solos for Irish Tenor Banjo. Dublin: Walton's. Available from The Standing Stones: http://www.standingstones.com/banjo.html
Ó Siochrú, M. (2008) “‘Shipped for the Barbadoes’: Cromwell and Irish migration to the Caribbean'” in History Ireland. Published in Confederate War and Cromwell, Early Modern History (1500–1700), Issue 4, Vol. 16. Available at: https://www.historyireland.com/early-modern-history-1500-1700/shipped-for-the-barbadoes-cromwell-and-irish-migration-to-the-caribbean/
Parker, J. (1972) “Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713” in History: Reviews of New Books, 1:1, 4, DOI: 10.1080/03612759.1972.9954929.
Rodgers, N. (2017) “The Irish in the Caribbean 1641-1837: An Overview” in Irish Migration Studies in Latin America. Available at: https://www.irlandeses.org/0711_145to155.pdf
Scully, M. (2015) “'Emigrants in the traditional sense?' – Irishness in England, contemporary migration, and collective memory of the 1950s” in Irish Journal of Sociology. Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.7227/IJS.23.2.9
Sterling, M. (2005) Review of “Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica” by Stolzoff, N. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes. Vol. 30, No. 59, pp. 200-202. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41800256
Stowell, C. R. (2000) “Retention and Preservation of African Roots in Jamaican Folk Music” In The Dread Library. Available at: https://debate.uvm.edu/dreadlibrary/stowell.html
A number of articles and resources that were used to research the project are available online, they are listed below with links to retrieve them.
Bilby, K. (2001) “Maroon Autonomy In Jamaica” in Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine. Available at: https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/maroon-autonomy-jamaica
Brannen, J., Elliott, H., Phoenix, A. (2016) “Narratives of success among Irish and African Caribbean migrants” in Ethnic and Racial Studies, 39:10, 1755-1772, DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2015.1124125
Emmick, M. S. (1995) “Scottish and Irish Elements of Appalachian Fiddle Music” in Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection, 21. Available at: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ugtheses/21
Fergus (2016) “The Irish Banjo” in The Irish Place. Available at: https://www.theirishplace.com/traditional-irish-music/the-irish-banjo/
Fields, L. (2011) “4-string Banjo in Jamaican Mento Music” in Banjo Hangout. Available at: https://www.banjohangout.org/blog/24475
Foner, N. (2008) “Gender and Migration: West Indians in Comparative Perspective” in Wiley Online Library. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1468-2435.2008.00480.x
Gangelhoff, C. (2013) “Art-Music by Caribbean Composers” in At The Barbados Archives. Heritage: Art Music by Bajan Composers. Available at: https://atthebarbadosarchives.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/heritage-art-music-by-bajan-composers/
Garnice, M. (2018) “What is Mento Music?” in Mento Music. Available at: http://www.mentomusic.com/WhatIsMento.htm
Goulbourne, H. (2018) “Windrush and the making of post-imperial Britain” in British Library. Available at: https://www.bl.uk/windrush/articles/windrush-and-the-making-of-post-imperial-britain
Grace, J. (n.d.) “Do You Remember the Days of Slavery? A Study of the Oppression of the Jamaican Working Class 1834-1942” in The Dread Library. Available at: https://debate.uvm.edu/dreadlibrary/grace.html
“History Notes: Information on Jamaica's Culture and Heritage” in The National Library of Jamaica. Available at: https://nlj.gov.jm/history-notes-jamaica/
Hogan, L., McAtackney, L., Reilly, M. C. (2016) “The Irish in the Anglo-Caribbean: servants or slaves?” in History Ireland. Published in 18th-19th Century Social Perspectives, Issue 2, Vol. 24. Available at: https://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/18th-19th-century-social-perspectives/the-irish-in-the-anglo-caribbean-servants-or-slaves/
Kauppila, P. (2006) “From Memphis to Kingston: An Investigation into the Origin of Jamaican Ska” in Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 55, No. 1-2, pp. 75-91. Available at: https://openmusiclibrary.org/article/64600/
“Jamaica’s Heritage in Music” (2018) in The Jamaica Information Service. Available at: https://jis.gov.jm/information/jamaicas-heritage-dance-music/jamaicas-heritage-music/
“Jamaica’s Heritage in Dance” (2018) in The Jamaica Information Service. Available at: https://jis.gov.jm/information/jamaicas-heritage-dance-music/jamaicas-heritage-dance/
Lingold, M.C. (2017) “Peculiar Animations: Listening to Afro-Atlantic Music in Caribbean Travel Narratives” in Early American Literature 52(3), 623-650. DOI: 10.1353/eal.2017.0052.
Marcus, T. (n.d.) “Harmony and Howling - African and European Roots of Jamaican Music” in The Dread Library. Available at: https://debate.uvm.edu/dreadlibrary/marcus.html
“Maroon Expressive Culture - Music, Dance, and Songs” (2016) in Jamaican Maroons. Available at: http://www.grannynannymaroons.com/maroon-expressive-culture-music-dance-and-songs/
McClatchy, D. (2000) “Appalachian Traditional Music - A Short History” in Musical Traditions Internet Magazine. Available at: http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/appalach.htm
McDowell, L. (2018) “How Caribbean migrants helped to rebuild Britain” in British Library. Available at: https://www.bl.uk/windrush/articles/how-caribbean-migrants-rebuilt-britain
“Mento purely home-grown” in Jamaica Gleaner. Published: 6 July 2014. Available at: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20140706/ent/ent6.html
Merriam, A.P. (1960) “Ethnomusicology: Discussion and Definition of the Field”. Published by: University of Illinois Press on behalf of Society for Ethnomusicology. DOI: 10.2307/924498. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/924498
Moloney, M. (1986) “The Banjo - A Short History” in O'Connor, G., McNevin, D. 50 Solos for Irish Tenor Banjo. Dublin: Walton's. Available from The Standing Stones: http://www.standingstones.com/banjo.html
Ó Siochrú, M. (2008) “‘Shipped for the Barbadoes’: Cromwell and Irish migration to the Caribbean'” in History Ireland. Published in Confederate War and Cromwell, Early Modern History (1500–1700), Issue 4, Vol. 16. Available at: https://www.historyireland.com/early-modern-history-1500-1700/shipped-for-the-barbadoes-cromwell-and-irish-migration-to-the-caribbean/
Parker, J. (1972) “Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624–1713” in History: Reviews of New Books, 1:1, 4, DOI: 10.1080/03612759.1972.9954929.
Rodgers, N. (2017) “The Irish in the Caribbean 1641-1837: An Overview” in Irish Migration Studies in Latin America. Available at: https://www.irlandeses.org/0711_145to155.pdf
Scully, M. (2015) “'Emigrants in the traditional sense?' – Irishness in England, contemporary migration, and collective memory of the 1950s” in Irish Journal of Sociology. Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.7227/IJS.23.2.9
Sterling, M. (2005) Review of “Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica” by Stolzoff, N. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes. Vol. 30, No. 59, pp. 200-202. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41800256
Stowell, C. R. (2000) “Retention and Preservation of African Roots in Jamaican Folk Music” In The Dread Library. Available at: https://debate.uvm.edu/dreadlibrary/stowell.html
OTHER
Cockpit Country Warriors - A Facebook group that seeks to provide a forum to discuss issues that pertain to the imminent mining plans by Noranda, to mine bauxite in Cockpit Country. The long-term goal is to provide information and programs that will foster indigenous sustainability in the communities.
The Maroon Museum - a visit to the museum in Accompong by Mark Renaissance Cameron.
Cockpit Country Warriors - A Facebook group that seeks to provide a forum to discuss issues that pertain to the imminent mining plans by Noranda, to mine bauxite in Cockpit Country. The long-term goal is to provide information and programs that will foster indigenous sustainability in the communities.
The Maroon Museum - a visit to the museum in Accompong by Mark Renaissance Cameron.
Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund
