Aspects of the West Indian Culture and its Survival in an Urban English Environment - Manchester
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Aspects of the West Indian Culture and its Survival in an Urban English Environment - Manchester
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/1/101
Creator(s): Mulley, Ian
Site Location(s): Subject - Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom( 53.4809, -2.23743 )
Date(s): 1977
Size and medium: i, 56 unbound typed leaves.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/409997
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
M.A. study of West Indian culture in Manchester, based on limited fieldwork and a relatively small number of interviews (predominantly with children attending schools in Moss Side and Greenheys). Chapter One analyses West Indian culture, outlining the social and economic history of the British West Indies, with reference to folklore, sexual, marital and family structures, customs and beliefs connected with birth and child-rearing, and the role of religion. Chapter Two examines the West Indian in Manchester, outlining the structure of the West Indian community in England, prevalent beliefs recorded during fieldwork interviews with schoolchildren, the games and rhymes known by these children, the Folk Religions of the Rastafarian Movement and the Church of the God of the Seventh Day, Reggae music and Rasta language.
Two appendices give a detailed account of the doctrines and history of both the Rastafarian Movement and the Church of God of the Seventh Day, including the texts of songs recorded at the latter in the Longsight district of Manchester.
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