id_number: ADS-1012-56

last_name: Morris

first_name: J.

middle_name: David

nickname: David

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Call number: PRJ-1012

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artist_city: Valdosta

state: GA

zip: 31605

artist_county: Lowndes

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birthdate: 04/15/53

birthplace: "Kingsport, TN"

ethnicity_1: European American

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genre: "music, percussion, steel band"

occupation: "music professor, percussion"

education: PhD Music Michigan State University

date_of_contact: 11/15/95

contact_made_by: Brent Farmer

notes: "Course project for MUS 648, Folk and Ethnic Music in the US, Laurie Sommers, instructor, fall 1995. Student paper in file. Also interviews tuner Tom Clark of Tropical Hammer, Sanford, FL, for the paper, but not on tape. J. David Morris is a timpanist and was chair of the VSU Music Dept. at the time of this interview."

keywords: "history, Valdosta State University, steel band"

County of Residence: Lowndes

Occupation: music professor, percussion

Notes: Course project for MUS 648, Folk and Ethnic Music in the US, Laurie Sommers, instructor, fall 1995. Student paper in file. Also interviews tuner Tom Clark of Tropical Hammer, Sanford, FL, for the paper, but not on tape. J. David Morris is a timpanist

Keywords: history, Valdosta State University, steel band

Genres (Controlled Vocabulary): music, percussion, steel band

VF File:

Article Title: The Origin of the Steel Drum and its Manufacturing

People In Article: Tom Reynolds and J. David Morris, Cliff Alexis

Places In Article: Kentucky, Valdosta, GA, St. Croix, Orlando, FL, Trinidad and Tobafo

Subjects in Article: music, percussion, steel band

Keywords: steel bands, Carnival, Tamboo Bamboo bands,

Brief Summary: Brent farmer interviewed J. David Morris, head of VSU music Dept in 1995 and Tom Reyolds, a pan maker and performer while a graduate student in music at VSU for a class with Laurie Sommers. No tape exists, but paper is well written and researched.