Jamaica, Jamaica!
By: [exhibition curators, Sebastien Carayol, Herbie Miller, O'Neil Lawrence]
Contributors: National Gallery of Jamaica
Publisher: National Gallery of Jamaica
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Kingston, Jamaica
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9789766540739
Subjects: Art; Exhibitions; History; Jamaican Art; Artists
Description: This exhibit is a landmark event in our musicœs history an exhibition that celebrates the producers, musicians and singers who developed the art and industry that has in no small part come to symbolize our countryœs collective identity. In It key objects form our musical past are presented in a way that not only speaks to Jamaicaœs complex history, but that simultaneously consider the impact these objects have had on a global scale.ʺ Introduction. Exhibition presented in collaboration with Jamaica Music Museum. Includes multiple essays by well-known Jamaican music and art critics.
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition February 2-June 28, 2020 at the National Gallery of Jamaica.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Building A National Collection / Herbie Miller; title: Where it all started: The place callaed Jamaica / Kenneth Bilby; title: Freedom Sounds: The african Ancestral Pathways that liberated Jamaican music / Clinton A. Hutton; title: Jazz Jamaica, at home and abroad / Herbie Miller; title: From the root to the source: Nyabinghi to Ska / Herbie Miller; title: Everytime mi hea de soun: The journey of a Jamaican Innovation / Dennis Howard; title: Trench town, A birth place of Jamaican Popular Music / Michael Barnett; title: The creative initiative of Jamaican women in music / Herbie Miller; title: It's dancehall ting: reflections of Jamaica's Longest running popular music genre / Sonajah Stanley Niaah; title: Danehall Queens / Carolyn Cooper; title: Popular speech and National Identity in Jamaica's Music / Hubert Devonish; title: About the autors.