Dispatches is a tumblelog by Thomas Sibley.

A Taste of Music in the Pioneer Valley’s Puerto Rican Community

Since September I’ve been working pretty intensively on an ethnomusicology project on Puerto Rican music in the Pioneer Valley.  Every week was marked by new recordings and interviews and usually some great Caribbean food.  All of this work culminated in a 20-minute documentary film, photos, snippets of extra video and audio field recordings, and numerous bits of writing, all of which is now curated and presented to the public on the Pioneer Valley Soundscapes website.

Take a look at my project, as well as the awesome projects of my classmates, at Pioneer Valley Soundscapes.  There’s a wealth of material there about everything from reggae to old pipe organs.

To learn more about the class and the project, visit the course description and the article about the class written by Katherine Duke ‘05 from the Public Affairs office.