This document discusses a documentary film titled "Ceolchuairt Jamaica" that was filmed in Jamaica and won an award. It explores traditional Maroon music and culture. The document discusses how music is a form of language, communication, expression and conveys history. It notes that music affects people individually and can locate one in time and place. The document specifically examines the music of the Tambu people, which involves the Tambu drum, catta sticks, and human voice. It provides visuals of these instruments and how they are played. In summarizing key themes, it focuses on dance, music, cultural expression and location.

1. Dr. Sandra Hamilton
Olive Lewin Fellow
ACIJ

2. Difference
Language
Similarities
Connections
Kongo

4. Geographical location of the study

5. Cultural
affirmation/
expression
have the
Tambo have
maintained?
self-perception,
values, and life
skills

6. BY CECELIA CAMPBELL-LIVINGSTON Observer staff reporter livingstonc@jamaicaobserver.com
Sunday, September 21, 2014 1 comment
Drummers and dancers display traditional Maroon music and
movement for Ray MacDonnacha, Irish TV director of photography, in
Wakefield, Trelawny.
CEOLCHUAIRT lamaice, an Irish documentary filmed in Jamaica this year, copped the award for
Best Documentary Series at the first Sky Road TV & Film Festival in Galway, Ireland on
September 5.

7. Major themes
Dance
Music
Location.

8. What is music?
• language.
• communication.
• It translates what we are feeling but cannot
vocalize.
• It emotes for us.
• Music also has the unique ability to convey
memory –
– through the feelings it arouses using
• structure, pace, pitch, tone and volume, as well as the lyrics

9. Music
• affects each individual in personal ways.
• locate us in time and place.
• offers a record of history and human experience that
may have been missed by the written word or images.
• conveys more than the written word.
• repository of meanings
• important to people who have limited means of
– self expression and
– transmission of history
– messages and
– communiqué.

10. Nketia (1970)
“Music bears more than a surface relationship to language.
A culture's music has a phonology of aesthetically
permissible notes, a vocabulary of acceptable scales and
rhythms, and a syntax of customs and rules that govern the
largely unconscious ways people represent themselves
through these notes, scales, and rhythms to produce what
they recognize as music. These ways are conditioned by
the cultural community-in the case of settled cultures, by
means of tradition and adaptation; in the case of displaced
African ethnic cultures, by means of negotiation”.

11. The music of the
Tambu consists
of:
the Tambu drum
the catta sticks
and
the human voice.

12. Tambu drum

13. Packing pickled fish for export
Scotland, 1855

14. One drum

15. Or Two drums?

16. Playing the catta sticks

17. Catta stick played from behind on
either side of drum

18. Catta stick played from side

20. Untying
Meaning
Dr. Olive Lewin
and the
Jamaica Folk
Singers

21. Thoughts circling

22. Thank you