The Jamaica Music Museum presents “The music of Jamaica: People, Voice, Song”
Mr. Herbie Miller, Director/Curator of the Jamaica Music Museum discusses aspects of the exhibition, “The music of Jamaica: People, Voice, Song” with Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, MP.
In accordance with its mandate “to gather, disseminate, educate and entertain visitors from home and abroad,” the Jamaica Music Museum currently has a mini display mounted at the Institute of Jamaica. This display serves as a precursor to the more engaging and technologically modern museum experience that will follow.
Exhibition Scope
The exhibition highlights the musical journey of Jamaica from the Taino to Dancehall.
It demonstrates how — through the narrative of music and dance — the social history
of Jamaica can be animated in new and exciting ways. The exhibit also shows how
technological advances and innovations have changed the way people engage with music
in their everyday lives - making the power of the musical experience more accessible.
This exhibition is not meant to be a complete narrative of the scope and history
of Jamaican music. The display offers only a brief overview.
This concise in-house exhibition, then, seeks to chart the development of Jamaican music, while at the same time, it attempts to convey the hope and optimism the music provided, and continues to provide, to an ever-evolving ethos, Jamaican and Caribbean at once.
To be proud and free is the dream of all men and woman. To stand among the nations
of the world, a master of our own destiny is the goal of all Jamaicans. This has
been the prime message of Jamaica’s musical narrative over the ages, and as much
as its soul comes from the Black Atlantic experience, the montage of our heritage,
our mixed and diverse backgrounds, also
Instruments on display in the exhibition, “The music of Jamaica: People, Voice, Song” mounted by The Jamaica Music Museum at The Institute of Jamaica.
energizes our will to be free.
This is a dream that partially came with political independence but is a larger vision still in process. And out of this mixed background, too, have come the humor, the resilience, energy, and ambition, to retain our optimism. As provocative as the dream is the music, the music of Jamaica, which expresses our peoples’ wit and humor, and the desire to shape our destiny.
For tour bookings, please contact The Institute of Jamaica Public Relations department, 10-16 East Street, Kingston at 922-0620-6 or pr.ioj@mail.infochan.com.