Oral history interview with Jackie, a female selector from Jamaica
Object Details
- General
- Associated documentation, including partial transcripts, for this interview is available in the Anacostia Community Museum Archives. The textual transcripts are not verbatim of the audio recordings.
- Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
- Interviewer
- Walters, Ann A.
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Jamaica
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Topic
- Women
- Disc jockeys
- Emigration and immigration
- Discrimination
- Dancehall (Music)
- Reggae music
- Calypso (Music)
- Violence
- Rastafarians
- Interviews
- Interviewer
- Walters, Ann A.
- Culture
- Jamaicans
- Africans
- Afro-Jamaican
- See more items in
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records / Series 3: Oral History Interviews
- Sponsor
- Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
- Extent
- 2 Digital files
- 1 Sound cassette
- Date
- circa 1992-1993
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Digital files
- Sound cassettes
- Citation
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Note
- The total playing time of interview recording is approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
- Scope and Contents
- Jackie, a female selector from Jamaica, spoke about her parents and siblings; her mother leaving Jamaica to go to the United States; being raised by her father and relatives in Jamaica; growing up in the ghetto and attending grade school in Jamaica; and why she migrated to the United States. She explained how she became a disc jockey, her introduction to dancehall music, and how she selected music for different crowds in Jamaica. Note, she identified herself as African Jamaican. Jackie spoke about her GED class, discrimination, and barriers, including language and employment, in the United States. She also spoke about music, including dancehall, reggae, and calypso; music lyrics; violence at dances and relationship to dancehall music; differences in music and where music is played in the United States versus Jamaica; non-Jamaicans trying to be like Jamaicans, and not actually understanding Jamaican culture; maintaining contact with family and friends in Jamaica; eating Jamaican food in the United States; and Rastafarians. She explained she only has time for furthering her career in cosmetology; why she does not play music as a disc jockey in the United States; the difficulties living in the United States as a foreigner; and how her employer treated her, including threats to call immigration. Jackie was interviewed by Ann A. Walters. Interview is in English. Digital audio files include loud white noise and static, and a little sound interference or distortion. Interviewee's voice is intelligible for the most part.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1712088000981-1712088003363-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0