Date for Entry: (Friday 1st June, 2018)
Actual Date of Online
Entry: (Thursday
27th January 2022)
Dear Diary,
During the summer vacation of my degree year one, I was sent an email from
Dr. Remy for a request. She had asked me to go to the West Indian Collections Microfilm to find a steelpan article for a colleague. The name of the Article is
"The
Story of Steelbands in Antigua: From 'Hellish Cacophony' to Festival” which was
written by David J. Nelson of the Guardian Newspaper in 1951.
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MLA: |
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Nelson,
David J. "The Story of Steelbands in Antigua: From 'Hellish
Cacophony' to Festival.” Sunday Guardian, 26 Jan, 1951, p. 17. |
I emailed back Dr. Remy on the 9th of June 2018 with the article in a PDF from the Microfilm program along with some other steelpan items I was able to find. According to the email, the same article that was asked of me to find is on page three. Dr. Remy also wanted to send her the MLA written out for her before passing the information on to someone else. I did up a handwritten form (version 6) that I used to do for the coursework in that class and sent it over to her together. The MLA attempt on the form was not correct. Please see the table above.
[UPDATE]
I have had a lot of appreciation for this little search because it got me
to be introduced to TASPO (Trinidad All Steel Percussion Orchestra). I had to
learn further on this when I was doing her degree course in the ‘History and
Development of the Steelpan’ class. I was surprised when it came back up in the
class and I got to learn a bit further about what I found.
I got the opportunity to meet Miss Nero in the library at the same time.
She had asked Dr. Remy to meet me after my submissions of the “A Season of
Steelpan” books with newspaper articles and forms that I had donated to the
library towards Dr. Remy’s collection of work there. I also gave Miss Nero some
additional submissions from the Microfilm quest.
I went to find what Dr. Remy was looking for first and then went through
the whole year looking for steelpan articles from that same year. I also got to
share the music composition for the “Animal Farm” anthem that I did during that
vacation period as part of the conversation and she seemed to appreciate it.
Just before leaving, Miss Nero took me to see the Dr. Eric Williams
Museum where they had recreated his office. It felt like a real place or some completely
special different location as if it was not UWI anymore in the small room.
Link(s):
- Microfilm Newspaper Articles.**
Daryl Zion M. Ali
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