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The Jamaican Folk Singers - VOL 2/71 LP (VG+) Jamaica Olive Lewin traditional For Sale

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The Jamaican Folk Singers - VOL 2/71 LP (VG+) Jamaica Olive Lewin traditional:
$22.50

Truly a wonderful recording of music arranged by Olive Lewin, musical director for the Jamaican Folk Singers.15 traditional island songs included. You will find yourself humming and singing along.
Dr. Lewinwas a tireless advocate for Jamaican culture and folk music and is perhaps best known for the founding of three major organizations related to these interests: The Jamaican Folk Singers, the Jamaica Youth Orchestra, and the Memory Bank Project. The latter project began in 1981 with the support of the Honorable Edward Seaga, then the Prime Minister of Jamaica. It built upon and added to over twenty years of work that Dr. Lewin had already done in collecting songs and oral histories around the island. The African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica holds more than 1,500 audio recordings of traditional Jamaican songs she made from 1966 through the term of the Memory Bank Project.
The work of bringing acknowledgement and popular recognition of the diverse African and ethnic sources of Jamaican music was not easy in a very hierarchal and Eurocentric society. During her own childhood, children were often punished for singing folk songs. Olive was among those who would change such attitudes. When she was appointed research officer with the Jamaica School of Music in January of 1966, she would travel for hundreds of miles on some occasions to, as she put it, “draw peoples tongues,” i.e., get them to talk and sing. While she felt passionately about the importance of the many local contacts she made, those who administered the School of Music often felt that it was a waste of time and resources to spend a whole day just recording one song. This did not deter Olive. Among the traditions she recorded were those of the Jamaican Maroons, Buru, Kumina, Ettu and Tambu groups, Dinkie Minnie, work songs, and pagwah and divili among Indo-Jamaican music. Not satisfied in just recording and transcribing such music, Olive wanted other Jamaicans to actually hear and appreciate the diverse sounds of their culture. It was this that inspired her to found the Jamaican Folk Singers in 1967.of Jamaican music was not easy in a very hierarchal and Eurocentric society. During her own childhood, children were often pun

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The Jamaican Folk Singers - VOL 2/71 LP (VG+) Jamaica Olive Lewin traditional For Sale

The Jamaican Folk Singers - VOL 2/71 LP (VG+) Jamaica Olive Lewin traditional: $22.50

The Jamaican Folk Singers - VOL 2/71 LP (VG+) Jamaica Olive Lewin traditional:
$22.50