Concepts about Music: Cultural Influence 1. What is music in the culture? African music is as diverse as its cultures and peoples and has flowered many indigenous forms as well as been shaped by foreign influences. It bears a difference from other regions and cultures. The roles of music and dance are tightly woven together in Sub-Saharan Africa‚ and music intersects with every aspect of life‚ expresses life through the medium of sound. African music also helps connect people together in a variety
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A quest is the act or instance of seeking or pursuing something. In the books "Sundiata" and "The Odyssey of Homer"‚ both of the main characters venture out on quests. Throughout each characters quest‚ they have goals they would like to achieve‚ obstacles that get in their way‚ and enemies they must face. Sundiata and Odysseus also receive some assistance along the way. Both characters also have a common goal to return to their homes after their quests are over. If their quests are successful they
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Sarah Anne Stevenson Dave Stockum English Language and Comprehension 20 November 1999 Blues Music and its influence on integration From years 1505 to 1870‚ the world underwent the largest forced migration in history: West Africa was soon to be convulsed by the arrival of Europeans and become the advent of the transatlantic slave trade. Ships from Europe‚ bound for America‚ appeared on the horizon‚ and their captains and sailors-carrying muskets‚ swords‚ and shackles-landed on the coast‚ walked
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It brings the song to life. Like the African drum the beat is to keep people moving and dancing. In hip hop there is usually a DJ or an MC who plays music or tells a story which is similar to the Africans Griot. They set the mood and the tempo with music. The drum was like a story being told and hip hop beats are no different because beats explain a story through sound. Noticing dancing and music in Africa connecting to hip hop music today consider hip hop
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States‚ Mona is posing near a former slaveholding fortress in West Africa for a photo shoot. Far from the exotic setting her photographer hoped for‚ Mona is possessed by lingering spirits and is transfixed by a self-appointed cultural guardian and griot (storyteller) who won’t let her forget her past. In a flashback‚ Mona is taken into slavery. She lives out her life as Shola‚ a house servant on a Southern plantation. There she meets Nunu‚ an African-born matriarch and field hand‚ and Shango‚
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Sexton asserts that the older daughter‚ Dee‚ is the "embodiment of the struggle for a unifying identity" (par. 4). In contrast with Dee‚ the critics Houston A Baker‚ Jr. and Charlotte Pierce-Baker consider Maggie to be a guardian of history‚ or "griot" (164). On the other hand‚ David White describes Mama as having an "inherent understanding of heritage‚" something less apparent among the two children (par. 3). Dee‚ Maggie‚ and Mama serve as artistic representations of the various aspects of African
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southern boundary of the Saharan trade routes. Kumbi Saleh became the focus of all trade‚ with an efficient form of taxation. 3. The Soninke people were very skilled artisans‚ craftsman‚ workers‚ agrarian laborers‚ and even superb wordsmith whose oral griots are mimicked by other local tribes such as the Mende. Soninke are thought to be one of the first people to utilize and capitalize on the use of “ironware” in the “Sahelian West Africa “region. 4. The gold salt trade as a time when people traded salt
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The goals were not just to preserve and propagate cultural values like the Griots used to‚ but gain significant economic advantages among others. This was the main inspirations to the creation of a well-known animation film‚ titled “Kirikou and the sorceress”. The original name of this animated film was in French “Kirikou et les
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African instruments include kora‚ djembe drums‚ and kalimba. Kora is widely known and used in parts of West Africa. It is made of a 21-string bridge-harp covered with cow skin. Most kora players and performers come from the well-known families called griot‚ who are historians in West Africa. They used the kora to deliver history as singers. Usually‚ they are known as wandering musicians or bards. On the other hand‚ djembe drums are African instruments that are classified as percussion instruments
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form of music and storytelling that began thousands of years ago in Africa with the “griots”‚ who were village story tellers who played a simple handmade instrument while they told stories about family‚ village events‚ and nature. As they would play their instrument‚ they would also talk and the two things would mix together‚ the words flowing with the beat and rhythm of the instrument playing. Alongside the griot tradition‚ rap also has roots in the days of slavery‚ when the African American slaves
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