ABSTRACT

“The Jamaican airs” is a paper introducing an unpublished primary source from the C. E. Long Papers at the British Library in London. Although much of the source’s content was originally printed in 1797, in a periodical called The Columbian Magazine, about half has never been published. This half features the most extensive pieces of musical notation from the early-modern era of songs that were composed and performed by enslaved people. The present article is an early step in an ongoing and collaborative effort to share this music with people interested in studying Caribbean history and culture. It introduces the pieces of notation by contextualizing the larger primary source in which they are embedded. This is done in three parts: overall description, provenance and archival context, and preliminary analysis. The complete primary source has been made available to the public in an online exhibit with the Early Caribbean Digital Archive.

摘要

“牙买加风”是一篇介绍伦敦大英图书馆的CE Long论文的未出版主要资料的论文。尽管该资源的大部分内容最初是在1797年印刷的，但该期刊还是《哥伦比亚杂志》，大约有一半尚未出版。这一半的特征是奴隶制人创作和表演的近现代歌曲中最广泛的音乐符号。本文是与感兴趣的研究加勒比历史和文化的人们共享音乐的持续努力的第一步。它通过将嵌入它们的较大的主要来源进行上下文化处理来引入这些符号。这分为三个部分：整体描述，出处和档案环境以及初步分析。完整的主要资源已通过“早期加勒比海数字档案馆”的在线展览向公众公开。