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National Library of Jamaica

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The island's principal repository of documentary heritage, grown out of the Institute of Jamaica's West India Reference Library, holding print, photographic and audiovisual sources vital to music and cultural history.

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National Library of Jamaica; Institute of Jamaica.

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Events, festivals, clashes & institutionsEvidence, memory & meta layers

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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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