Historiography and Musicology in British Virgin Island

There are several common historical documentation and musicological research and analysis of the Virgin Islander music, the sound label is Mary Jane Soule and ethnomusicologists Margot Lieth Philip joint on an annotated CD, Zoop Zoop Zoop, and the traditional music and folkloric of St, Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John. The local and the Smithsonian institution have also reported some folk traditions, but the research remains large. The scholarly history of the islands musical life, the memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr, First black band master of the United States Navy were currently documented by the University of California press in a scholarly edition by Mark Clague, the book offers a first-hand account of the musical life in the Virgin Island from the 1900’s through the 1950’s. Adams remembrances are surprisingly precise as in addition to his musical events, he worked as a journalist and much of his writings are based on the articles and noted his confined for the St. Thomas times and the bulletin as well as the Pittsburgh courier.