Steelpan in Education

Andrew R. Martin is professor of music at Inver Hills College, where he directs the African music ensemble and steelband. His most recent book is Steelpan Ambassadors: The US Navy Steel Band, 1957–1999, and he writes a semi-regular newspaper column, "Pan Worldwide," for the Trinidad Guardian. Ray Funk is a Fulbright scholar and retired Alaskan trial judge. He has been a coauthor on several projects, including a history of Invaders Steel Orchestra, a box set on the Calypso Craze, and a book on the Trinidad Carnival photos of George Tang. He has published numerous articles on Trinidad calypso, steelpan, and Carnival, as well as extensive research on African American gospel quartets. Jeannine Remy is a senior lecturer of music in the Department for Creative and Festival Arts at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad, where she has taught since 2003. Remy is an active composer, arranger, adjudicator, and musical commentator in cultural music. She has received numerous faculty research grants, including a Fulbright to research and archive Trinidad and Tobago steelpan music. Remy earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from Northern Illinois University and her doctorate from the University of Arizona.

"The authors have undertaken a significant challenge in documenting arguably the most important collegiate steelband in United States history. This project fills a significant gap in the research. There are no in-depth historical accounts of any US collegiate steel bands. This is the one that needed to be documented more than any other, and the authors succeed in that endeavor."—Brandon Haskett, Saginaw Valley State University