Carter Van Pelt
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Every stage in the process of creating a marketable music product (writing, recording, manufacturing, and distributing) adds value toward the final marketable product. Much of the value chain associated with Jamaican music has taken place off the island, mitigating its economic development potential." -- Carter Van Pelt |
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Carter Van Pelt is a reggae scholar, author of “Toward a Conventional Copyright System: The Jamaican Experience with Rights Management and a New Law” (Master of Arts dissertation, Columbia University, 2006).
He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska in 1993.
Carter Van Pelt has written for The Beat, Reggae Report, Dub Missive, Modern Drummer and High Times. His article, "Slyght of Hand," detailing the career of Jamaican percussionist Sly Dunbar, was published in Reggae, Rasta, Revolution (1997) by Chris Potash.
In the late 1990s, he published four issues of the reggae fanzine, 400 Years.
