The 'Famous Jamaica Choir'
- An unfinished site about an important Black Jamaican choral group, started as the Kingston Choral Union in the 1880s by T Ellis Jackson.
Jamaica's Merry-Go-Rounds
- late 19th and early 20th century Jamaica's fascination with the merry-go-round
practice dances
- for a decade or so in the early 20th century, ordinary
Jamaicans knew as 'practice dances' the dance functions
they arranged among themselves.
the "Funny Murrays"
- Henry Murray and his two sons were incredibly popular
performers of Jamaican dialect presentations in later 19th
century Jamaica.
- deals with a company of entertainers who visited Jamaica several times in the second half of the 19th century and secured considerable popular success.
19th century Jamaica - entertainment
- just the beginning of a site about the entertainments presented to Kingstonians in the 19th century
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