January , Caribbean Cultural Identity. By Rex Nettleford Program. Institute of Jamaica, November 25, Nettleford gets top post. Jamaica Daily News.
By Justin Whyte. The Gleaner, November , The Daily Observer, March 9, Rex Nettleford: Sense of Place and Purpose. By Debra Anthony. By Marina Maxwell. The Sunday Gleaner, October 2, Nettleford gets nod.
The Gleaner, July 27, Off to Trinidad Tomorrow. The Daily Gleaner, October 24, University of Oxford to Honour Professor Nettleford. Sunday Herald, March 30 — April 5, Jamaica Herald, August 10, Nettleford, Rex Ralston Milton.
Dance Jamaica: Rex Nettleford. Vice Chancellor Nettleford. The Daily Observer, July 27, UWI family honours Nettleford. The Gleaner, September 27, By Donna Hussey-White.
The Daily Observer, September 20, The Genius of Nettleford. By Niala Maharaj. Express Sunday, August 21, Rex Nettleford for Bahamian Forum. Tribune, April 26, Institute of Jamaica. Honourable Rex Nettleford, O. Mutual Affair, October Lam Magazine, August 5, Ceremony for the Installation of the Vice-Chancellor. Mona Campus, March 6, The Jamaica Daily News, January 30, Nettleford to get official funeral. The Daily Observer, February 9, The Star, May 7, Rex Nettleford contributes to book on violence.
Daily News, November, Daily Gleaner, August 24, UWI honours Nettleford. By Francine Black. The Gleaner, February 23, Honouring Rex Nettleford. At a second level, the Extra Mural department also facilitated if not demanded engagement with the public, non-formally as well as non-traditionally. It was therefore not coincidental that nine years after his first choreographed dance production at Cornwall College, Rex Nettleford co-founded the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica the NDTC , coinciding with the independence of his native land.
And to commemorate the centenary of Rhodes scholarships in the Caribbean, in , the Rhodes Trust established the Rex Nettleford Fellowship in Cultural Studies, to be awarded annually in recognition of his cultural pre-eminence and enormous contribution to Caribbean regional cultural wholeness. Rex Nettleford and His Works: An Annotated Bibliography, edited by Albertina Jefferson, is a page compilation of his scholarly and creative output.
A committed academic, Nettleford did not allow the new appointments to dull his research abilities, and immediately immersed himself in a study of the Rastafarian movement entitled, The Rastafari Movement in Kingston, Jamaica, alongside other noted Caribbean scholars, M. Smith and Roy Augier. This one of a kind study, published in , was later credited with helping to give credibility to a social group which hitherto had been construed as vagrants and social outcasts.
In , Nettleford gave life to another of his visions by founding the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica NDTC , an ensemble which focused on fusing together traditional Jamaican music, dance and rituals within the European balletic framework.
He acted as its artistic director and prinicipal choreographer until his death in Using the NDTC he re-introduced several traditional religious rituals to Jamaica, including Pocomania and Kumina, portraying them as creative artistic expressions, and not solely abstract pieces of history.
His writings and lectures reflect a profound conviction in the creative power of the peoples of the region, a power struggling to unleash itself from the conjunction of historical and neo-colonial forces. Additionally, through his collection of essays entitled Mirror, Mirror, and his editing and compiling of the speeches and writings of Norman Manley , Manley and the New Jamaica, in , Nettleford would establish himself as a serious public historian and social critic. This talent kept him in high demand well into his last days.
For his contributions to nation building, Nettleford was awarded the Order of Merit in , even as he rose in stature at the University of the West Indies UWI due to his continued academic contributions. I remember the pride and delight of the Jamaican audience present at the conferment of the degree on Rex as the Jamaican National Anthem rang out in the august halls of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.
Rex had a way of carrying Jamaica to the world. The English paraphrase of the Latin oration read on that occasion in the Sheldonian is as follows:.
Marcus Cicero, the very greatest of all Orators, in his judicial defence of L. Licinius Murena against the weighty prosecution of Cato, makes a show of great indignation and outrage. Professor Nettleford, our next honorand, can serve as a visible refutation of that absurd judgment, which leaves his dignity unimpaired. The Greeks knew very well, though the Romans did not, that the same man can combine exquisite dancing with the highest rank and dignity. Professor Nettleford was born in Jamaica and came first to London and then to Oxford where he applied himself to the study of the manners and rituals of contemporary society, and to the illumination and understanding of our own lives.
He soon began to teach, and it was not long before he was a professor; further promotion made him pro-vice-chancellor; that post itself was soon left behind as he became vice-chancellor, and for five years he has been at the head of his university. He has written some brilliant books, in which he has shed unequalled light on the mentality of his people.
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