Title

Jamesie: King of Scratch Project Background

Authors

Andrea E. Leland
Kathleen McManus

Files

Description

This project information background describes the Jamesie: King of Scratch documentary and includes a history of scratch band music of the Caribbean, especially as practiced by Jamesie in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. It also describes the production personnel, the scholars and tradition bearers involved, the film venues where the documentary would be screened, and plans for the upcoming study guide to assist in classroom use.

Publication Date

2003

Publisher

Andrea Leland Productions

Keywords

James "Jamesie" Brewster, Kathleen McManus, quelbe music, Caribbean, USVI, US Virgin Islands, St. Croix, quadrille, folk music

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

Disciplines

African Languages and Societies | Arts and Humanities | Education | Indigenous Studies | Music | Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Sociology

Comments

This project information background describes the Jamesie: King of Scratch documentary and includes a history of scratch band music of the Caribbean, especially as practiced by Jamesie in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands. It also describes the production personnel, the scholars and tradition bearers involved, the film venues where the documentary would be screened, and plans for the upcoming study guide to assist in classroom use.

This item is part of the Andrea Leland Documentary Film Collection held at the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago.

Recommended Citation

Leland, Andrea E. and McManus, Kathleen, "Jamesie: King of Scratch Project Background" (2003). Study Guides & Project Booklets. 3.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/leland_study/3