Olive Lewin

Biographic Data

ID131603
NAMEOlive Lewin
GIVEN NAMESOlive
FAMILY NAMELewin
SIGNATURELEWIN O
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the West Indies System
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
H-INDEX1

  • Jamaica

    Olive Lewin, Maurice G GordonCHAPTERThe new Grove dictionary of music…2001

  • Reggae Wisdom

    Daniel Neely, Daniel T Neely et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music2001

  • Rock It Come over

    Olive LewinBOOK"Rock it come over"2000

    Rock It Come Over describes the music and lore of Slavery from the early sixteenth century through emancipation in 1838 to the mid twentieth century. Lewin explores the role of music in the lives of the slaves as a method of communication, as a form of resistance and subversion, as a repository of oral history and beliefs, and, ultimately, as a means of survival. The work is based on decades of research into the music sung and played by the worki…

  • Come Mek Me Hol' Yu Han

    Erkki Pekkila, Olive Lewin et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1990

  • Fourth International Colloquium "Traditional Music and Tourism," held at Kingston, and Newcastle, Jamaica, July 10-14, 1986

    Open AccessAdrienne L Kaeppler, Olive LewinARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1986Cited by: 1

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  • Traditional Music in Jamaica

    Olive LewinARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1983Cited by: 1

    (1983). Traditional Music in Jamaica. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 29, Caribbean Traditional Music, pp. 32-43

  • Roots of Reggae. Music from Jamaica

    Olive LewinARTICLEEthnomusicology1978

  • Bongo, Backra & Coolie

    Olive Lewin, Kenneth Bilby et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1977

  • Songs and Stories from Uganda

    Janie Sykes Kennedy, W Moses Serwadda et al.ARTICLEThe Black Perspective in Music1975

  • Jamaica's Folk Music

    Open AccessOlive LewinARTICLEYearbook of the International…1971

    The written history of Jamaica goes back only 477 years, starting with the coming of the Spaniards under Christopher Columbus in 1494. Columbus and his men were greeted on arrival by a party of Arawak Indians, including a Chief and musicians. The Arawaks were gentle peace-loving people who had lived in Jamaica for about 800 years before Columbus came. However, they were unable to endure the enslavement and the harsh treatment which they suffered …

  • Jamaican Folk Music

    Olive LewinARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1968Cited by: 3