Dr. Olive Lewin—renowned Jamaican musicologist, folklorist, singer, actress, and community servant—transitioned last week at the age of eighty-five. She was a tireless advocate for Jamaican culture and folk music.

Founded in 1879, this is Jamaica's most significant cultural, artistic and scientific organisation: a patron and promoter of the arts in Jamaica, sponsoring exhibitions and awards. Visit their website.

Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes, collected and edited by Walter Jekyll (1907).

Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou, OM, OJ, MBE (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator. Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, Bennett worked to preserve the practice of presenting poetry, folk songs and stories in patois ("nation language"), establishing the validity of local languages for literary expression. Read more on Wikipedia.

Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century. He was also a musician himself, as well as a folklorist, archivist, writer, scholar, political activist, oral historian, and film-maker.

Folk music originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that. Some types of folk music are also called world music as it includes both traditional music as well as folk revival.