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((refimprove|date=September 2014))
"'''Linstead Market'''" is a [[Jamaica]]n folk song of the [[mento]] type<ref>[http://pancocojams.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/jamaican-mento-song-come-we-go-down-to.html Azizi Powell (ed.), "Jamaican Mento Song - Come We Go Down To Linstead Market (Solas Market)"], Pancocojams, 23 October 2013.</ref> that tells of a mother who goes to the market with her [[ackee]] fruit but does not sell any, with the result that her children will go hungry.<ref>[http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=2857&c=113 "Linstead Market (Jamaican Folk Song)"], Mama Lisa's World.</ref>

==History==
Possibly the earliest publication of the tune with words occurs in Walter Jekyll's 1907 book, ''Jamaican Song and Story,'' as  [https://books.google.com/books?id=mNwb65fmvqUC&dq=%22Leah+and+Tiger%22&pg=PA219 item 121], pages 219-220.  In Jekyll, the lyrics are as follows:((check|date=October 2009))

:Carry me ackee go a linstead market
:not a quatee wud sell
:carry me akee go a linstead market not a quatee wud sell 
:oh lawd! what a night! what  a night! what a saturday night!
:''etc''...
 
In [[Helen Heffron Roberts|Helen H. Roberts]]' collection of folk song variants based on field work in Jamaica, published in 1925, the version in Jekyll is reproduced, followed by twelve variants.  In some of these, "Sollas market" replaces "Linstead market".  (Sollas market became [https://web.archive.org/web/20110607002148/http://www.fotosearch.com/IST517/1628822/ Jubilee Market], located on West Queen Street in [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]].)

For example, Roberts includes a version as sung in Christiana:

<blockquote>
Sold me ackee, go to Sollas market. <BR>
Not a quatty would sell. <BR>
Sold me ackee, go to Sollas market. <BR>
Not a quatty would sell. <BR>
So whole o' Saturday night, <BR>
so not a light, not a bite. <BR>
So not a quatty would sell. <BR>
</blockquote>

In 1975, [[Oxford University Press]] published "Linstead Market" in [[Olive Lewin]]'s collection of Jamaican folk-songs, with these words:

<blockquote>
Carry me ackee go a Linstead market, <BR>
Not a quatty wut sell, <BR>
Carry me ackee go a Linstead market, <BR>
Not a quatty wut sell. <BR>
Lawd wat a night, not a bite, <BR>
Wat a Satiday night. <BR>
Lawd wat a night, not a bite, <BR>
Wat a Satiday night. <BR>
</blockquote>

On page 14, Dr. Lewin explains that "Linstead Market still remains a picturesque small town market.  The song is now often taken at a much faster pace for dancing but was originally sung slow and plaintively by a mother who couldn't sell enough at the market to feed her children.  A quatty was a small copper coin of very small value."

A quatty (also spelled quattie) was worth one and one-half pennies (also expressed as three [[Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin)|half-pennies]], or six [[Farthing (British coin)|farthing]]s). It was not in fact a minted coin – rather, it served as a standard unit when buying and selling.((citation needed|date=July 2022)) Goods were commonly sold in amounts which were worth a quatty, or multiples thereof. If the value of a good changed, the amount that buyers received in exchange for a quatty went up or down accordingly.((citation needed|date=July 2022))

In all the versions mentioned above except the earliest, the melody is written in 2/4 or 4/4 time, but in Jekyll, the time signature is 6/8.
  
The melody has been arranged for solo voice with piano.  One of the earliest such publications was "Linstead Market: a Jamaican Folk-song," by [[Arthur Benjamin]], [[Boosey & Hawkes]], 1947 (5 pages).  Among choral arrangements is one of the same title by A. H. Green, published by Oxford University Press in 1967 (8 pages).  The song was included on the compact disc " The ''[[King's Singers]]'' in 1992.  The song was recorded by the English folk group [[The Spinners (UK band)|The Spinners]], sung by their Caribbean singer Cliff Hall. The song is also published in modern collections, such as ''Songs of the Americas,'' arranged by Margery Hargest John, published by Boosey & Hawkes, London, 1993.

The song was covered by legendary Cuban group [[La Sonora Matancera]] in 1957, in English and Spanish. 

More recently, published in January 2014, the album by [[Monty Alexander]], titled "Harlem-Kingston Express, Vol. 2: The River Rolls On", contains track #11, "Linstead Market (Live Bonus)".  It is 6:37 long and features a spoken introduction.  Liner notes of the album by Monty Alexander reference the track by stating, "... this beloved old Jamaican folk song from way before my time, is one of the staples of the [[Mento]] repertoire."  

[[Brian Raphael Nabors]] arranged [https://www.briannabors.com/linstead Linstead Market] 2018 for string quartet, commissioned by [[Castle of Our Skins]] for its Celebrity Collaboration Project.

The track was recorded by Rob Macomber in 2012 at [[Jazz_at_Lincoln_Center#Rose_Hall|Dizzy's Club ''Coca Cola'']] in NYC.  Additional liner notes from the album regarding the song:

:LINSTEAD MARKET LIVE BONUS (Public Domain) Arrangement: Monty Alexander Monass Music/BMI
:Monty Alexander piano, vocals Hassan Shakur acoustic bass Joshua Thomas electric bass Karl Wright, Winard Harper drums Andy Bassford guitar Earl Appleton keyboards Robert Thomas, Jr. percussion

==Hymn tune==
Quite a different direction of development was the inclusion of "Linstead Market," as LINSTEAD, arranged as a [[hymn tune]] by [http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sub=307&search=481 Doreen Potter] in ''Break Not the Circle,'' Hope Publishing Co., 1975.  Here, the melody is found with a hymn text by [[Fred Kaan]].  This arrangement appears in at least five hymnals:

''Presbyterian Hymnal'' (1990), no. 514 <BR>
''With One Voice'' (Lutheran, 2000), no. 754 <BR>
''Worship and Rejoice'' (2001), no. 698 <BR>
''Sing! A New Creation'' (CRC, 2002), no. 258 <BR>
''Singing the New Testament'' (2008), no. 166

== References ==
((reflist))

== External links ==
* [http://www.jamaicans.com/culture/folk/sound/linstead.mid Hear a MIDI rendition of the song]
* [https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/harlem-kingston-express-vol-2-the-river-rolls-on/1457269047 Full album on Apple iTunes: Monty Alexander, Harlem-Kingston Express, Vol. 2 - the River Rolls On. See Track 11:  Linstead Market (Live Bonus)]
* [https://www.jazz.org/dizzys/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwnKHlBRDLARIsAMtMHDHIC5olrdjQ-sZX8kmwsodZL1yoScAR6SabaEkeH3L-74h9a6YLTxwaAlGnEALw_wcB Dizzy's Club ''Coca Cola'' at Lincoln Center, New York City, NY.]

==Further reading==
* Walter Jekyll, ''Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes,'' London: [[David Nutt (publisher)|David Nutt]], 1907.  Reprinted by [[Dover Publications]], ((ISBN|0-486-43720-5))( pbk); 9780486437200 (pbk), 2005.
* [[Olive Lewin]], ''Beeny Bud: 12 Jamaican Folk-Songs for Children,'' collected and arranged for schools, London: Oxford University Press, 1975.
* Olive Lewin, ''Rock It Come Over: the Folk Music of Jamaica,'' Kingston, Jamaica: [[University of the West Indies Press]], 2000.
* Helen H. Roberts, "A Study of Folk Song Variants Based on Field Work in Jamaica," ''[[The Journal of American Folklore]]'', vol. 38, no. 148 (April–June 1925), pp.&nbsp;149–216.

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