Activity: Lecture
Co-ordinator: Moray House Trust
Date: Thursday 21st June 2012
Dr. Vibert Cambridge, an eminent Guyanese, currently serving as Professor Emeritus at the School of Medical Arts and Studies, Scripps College of Communication in Ohio University in the USA, gave a talk about the social history of Guyana assessed through its music.
Music and Social Change in C20th Guyana – Video Clips
Music and Social Change in C20th Guyana. Introduction
Dr Paloma Mohamed of the University of Guyana and Moray House Trust introduces Professor Cambridge and Ras Kamo Williams plays two short pieces on the steel pan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWmZh49KUrI
Part 1: ‘A story that was more than music’: the beginnings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyypSQVCRmM
Part 2: Three key concepts: ‘Encounter, Interaction and Exchange’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogum-vRRKkY
Part 3: 1900-1953 Mature colonial governance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkaP0GXW6gE
Part 4: ‘Guyana had a range of musical communities’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgSj6nE9v08
Part 5: 1930s to 1960s: ‘Bread and circuses model of governance’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5r5LE0lK24
Part 6: Post-colonial music in Guyana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpiaatF3POM
Part 7: Conclusion: ‘Music has been a tool in the development process’
http://youtu.be/lHnQernV4a4
Part 8: Questions and comments from the floor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZurRGFTmBk
