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Jamaica Music Museum

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The national music museum, a division of the Institute of Jamaica, holding instruments, recordings, ephemera and research material on the island's music. It is the formal public archive counterpart to the private collections and sound-system tape libraries that hold much of the surviving record.

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Institute of Jamaica — Jamaica Music Museum

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The museums, archives and channels that store Jamaica's musical memory.

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Compiled and researched by The Jamaica Music Atlas music desk. The sources that informed it are credited above.

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