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African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica (ACIJ/JMB)

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Division of the Institute of Jamaica established in 1973 to document African cultural retentions; merged in 1990 with the Jamaica Memory Bank, holding thousands of audiovisual records of folk song, ceremony and oral history across the parishes.

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Type: archive
Confidence: Well supported
Era: Open era →

Style, language, faith & wider cultureEvents, festivals, clashes & institutionsEvidence, memory & meta layers

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The museums, archives and channels that store Jamaica's musical memory.