Description |
xix, 592 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color), music ; 32 cm |
Contents |
Britain, Jamaica, and empire in the Era of Emancipation / Catherine Hall -- Work, culture, and Creolization: slavery and emancipation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Jamaica / Verene A. Shepherd -- Picturesque prospects and the labor of the enslaved / Tim Barringer -- Mapping a new Kingston: Belisario's sketches of character / Gillian Forrester -- Charters for the spirit: Afro-Jamaican music and art / Robert Farris Thompson -- Sketches of memory: visual encounters with Africa in Jamaican culture / Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz -- More than met the eye: African-Jamaican festivities in the time of Belisario / Kenneth Bilby -- Anglophone musical culture in Jamaica / Stephen Banfield -- Customs of an unruly race: the political context of Jamaican Jewry, 1670-1831 / Holly Snyder -- Belisario's "Kingston cries" and the refinement of Jewish identity in the late 1830s / Kay Dian Kriz -- Afterword: the legacies of Anglo-Caribbean culture--a diasporic perspective / Stuart Hall. |
Note |
Catalog of an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., Sept. 27-Dec. 30, 2007. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 556-576) and index. |
Subject |
Slavery in art -- Exhibitions.
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Jamaica -- Exhibitions.
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Belisario, Isaac Mendes, 1795-1849 -- Exhibitions.
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Art, British -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Jamaican -- Exhibitions.
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Jamaica -- In art -- Exhibitions.
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Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1670-1830
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Subject |
Slavery -- Jamaica -- Exhibitions.
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Added Author |
Forrester, Gillian.
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Martinez-Ruiz, Barbaro.
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Yale Center for British Art.
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ISBN |
9780300116618 alkaline paper |
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0300116616 alkaline paper |
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