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Oral history interview with Tony Carr

Anacostia Community Museum

Object Details

General
Associated documentation for this interview is available in the Anacostia Community Museum Archives.
Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
Names
Carr, Tony
Collection Creator
Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
Place
Jamaica
Washington (D.C.)
United States
Topic
Disc jockeys
Radio broadcasters
Caribbeans
Manners and customs
Discipline
Education
Religion
Churches
Music
Music -- African influences
Reggae music
Jazz
Dancehall (Music)
Rap (Music)
Musicians
Music trade
Sound recording industry
Radio programs
Violence
Emigration and immigration
Rastafari movement
Police
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Gangs
Interviews
Culture
Jamaicans
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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
1993 April 04
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
Tony Carr spoke of his childhood and growing up in an upper middle class family in Jamaica; his parents and their occupations; the disciplinarian of the family; the importance of religion in his family; family and Jamaican values; the impact of television on Jamaican society; the schools he attended in Jamaica; his participation in sports, particularly track and field; and teaching in Jamaica before migrating to the United States. Carr explained the differences between churches in Jamaica versus churches in the United States; the development of reggae music in Central Kingston, Jamaica; and the music and musicians on radio stations in Jamaica versus in the United States. He talked about how he started in reggae music, owning a record shop on the east coast of United States with widest selection of African music, and hosting radio programs centered around African, calypso, and reggae music for radio stations. Carr spoke extensively about the history and evolution of music, including jazz, reggae, dancehall, indigenous music, rhythm and blues, Jamaican rap, American rap, and hip hop reggae. He also addressed the audience for the various music genres, and how and why the audiences evolved. Carr also spoke about the values of and violence in United States society; how these values affect music and the music industry; and how the US music industry affects what is music is played, where the music is played, and how music genres are defined or redefined. Carr spoke about why he left Jamaica, why he stay in the United States, attending Federal City College, getting Jamaican athletes into universities in the US, how he established permanent residence in the US, visiting the US every year prior to his long term residence, maintaining Jamaican culture in the United States, and the Caribbean community in Washington, DC. Carr also briefly spoke about Rastafarianism, Operation Caribbean Cruise, and the Jamaican posse. Interview is in English. Digital audio files include white noise and static; interviewee's voice is intelligible.
Collection Restrictions
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1712088000981-1712088003378-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/qa7662787e1-371d-43d8-a4da-5aafc7a62602

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