The Jamaican airs: An introduction to unpublished pieces of musical notation from enslaved people in the eighteenth-century Caribbean

Leigh, Devin

doi:10.1080/14788810.2019.1678341

Atlantic Studies

2019

DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2019.1678341

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The Jamaican airs: An introduction to unpublished pieces of musical notation from enslaved people in the eighteenth-century Caribbean

Devin Leigh

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The Jamaican airs: An introduction to unpublished pieces of musical notation from enslaved people in the eighteenth-century Caribbean

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

Rethinking the Historical Development of Caribbean Performance Culture from an Afro-Iberian Perspective

Rethinking the Historical Development of Caribbean Performance Culture from an Afro-Iberian Perspective

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The Plantationocene and the Performative Commons

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