Soundtracks of a Nation: How 'BIM at 60' Is archiving six decades of history through song

Soundtracks of a Nation: How 'BIM at 60' Is archiving six decades of history through song

​Standing amidst the coral-stone walls of the Barbados Museum at the Garrison, the visitor is accustomed to encountering physical remnants of the past.  Display cases house pre-Columbian ceramic fragments, colonial-era cartography, sugar machinery components, and delicate 19th-century garments.  Yet, for Kevin Farmer, the museum’s deputy director, preserving national identity requires capturing something far more elusive than physical relics: th…