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In search of Mr Baptiste: on early Caribbean music, race, and a colonial composer
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Mr Baptiste was a musician living in late 17th-century Jamaica who composed music portraying African traditions as they were performed by enslaved musicians on the island. This article argues that Baptiste was probably a free person of colour and perhaps one of the earliest-known Black American composers to have published Western notation. His music was printed in Hans Sloane’s 1707 travelogue and natural history of Jamaica. The article also addresses broader issues concerning the underrepresentation of marginalized performers in colonial music histories, with special attention to musical life in the early modern Caribbean.
Title: In search of Mr Baptiste: on early Caribbean music, race, and a colonial composer
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Abstract
Mr Baptiste was a musician living in late 17th-century Jamaica who composed music portraying African traditions as they were performed by enslaved musicians on the island.
This article argues that Baptiste was probably a free person of colour and perhaps one of the earliest-known Black American composers to have published Western notation.
His music was printed in Hans Sloane’s 1707 travelogue and natural history of Jamaica.
The article also addresses broader issues concerning the underrepresentation of marginalized performers in colonial music histories, with special attention to musical life in the early modern Caribbean.
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