Especially since Africa has such a vast amount of ethnicities and cultures. I would need to aid this individual and classroom the understanding that amalgamating all the ethnic, cultural and socio-economic differences would create a stronger overall unit. To do this one could identify a learner who displays wisdom as well as far sightedness and task that individual towards leading other learners towards the goal of classroom unity and strength. As Africa also has a vast socioeconomic gap I would encourage the breakdown and sharing of resources amongst learners that have more resources than others without creating the impression that those that have less cannot contribute in other ways such as stimulating other learners senses to aid in the learning experience- empiricism or existentialism where the learner realises that they are a free and responsible agent and that
African music has always been a type of music that has stood out from others. Their strong use of percussion and maintaining traditional music makes their music very unique. However things have changed a lot now a days. Today in much of African music you can see the influences of various countries evident within their work. They now use instruments like the piano and guitar.
The Harlem Renaissance was important because it inspired an explosion of cultural pride and perceived as a new beginning for African Americans. Black Americans were inspired to create works rooted in their own culture instead of imitating the styles of white Americans. African Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage and to become “The New Negro” a term coined in 1925 by Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954), writer and patron of the arts. The following quote by Nathan Huggins (1927-1989), a prominent African American historian and author, reflects the change in attitudes that would help lay the foundation of the Civil Rights Movement. “For the Afro-American in
Ethan Gundry FOLK-F301 Week 11 Journal Drum Gahu by David Locke (Chapter 1) Week 11’s reading, Chapter 1: Introduction from the book Drum Gahu, provides great insight as to how the author became interested in African music. The first two sections provided a lot of great background about the author’s first trip to Ghana and his teaching experiences that have evolved to form his book, Drum Gahu. The influence of Ewe percussion on American jazz music is certainly a surprise, but it makes sense considering that Ewe performers began to teach their drumming in the United States in the 1960’s and 1970’s. This reading is especially interesting because it is from the perspective of a musical teacher, and not the outside opinion of a traditional writer. The author truly wishes to educate the readers, “… I make no overt attempt to modify your underlying attitude and motivation” (Drum
The particular drum as well as rhythm has a visible implication that is associated with Africa. It would sound really silly to here hip- hop in a scene filmed in Africa. That is why the musical score must be carefully developed and thought through. It is also vital that the time period of the movie must is replicated by the music and instrumentation. It is important to incorporate music from that era to connect the film and score.
Although the music from the south in mainly bells and drums, and the music from the north contains mostly tonal instrumentations there are many forms of music which transcend this notion. In old Ghanaian culture drumming played an extremely important role in not just social gatherings, but also communication. In fact, the spoken word was invented after communication was established by drumming, and this verbal language directly mimicked the sounds that the drums made. The people of Ewe refer to this drum speech as vugbe. The drums of the Ewe people of Ghana are established much like a family.
Jazz also has freedoms, which allow the jazz musicians to expand, and alter the music. A structure in jazz music, is the rhythm section of a band. The rhythm section encompasses the bass, drums, and piano. These 3 instruments perform the accompaniment, or background music, which keeps a rhythmic pulse for the soloists, or singer. These 3 instruments lay down a solid structure, so that other musicians can improvise around them.
Exploration and expansion could just boil down to the two most popular motives, money and power, but there was much more that encouraged the discovery of the new world and voyages around Africa. In Europe countries were just starting to form such as Portugal in 1380 Spain in 1469 and France 1480 so these new governments where looking to expand their holdings. Portugal united under King John I was largely responsible for the start of European exploration worldwide. King Johns I’s son Prince Henry the Navigator was a huge advocate of sailing and helped develop a new lighter ship. This new design would allow boats to sail farther and faster with fewer resources.
Through step, they made their own new language in order to communicate [good idea; we could probably work on this theme for RUCKUS- Prithak]. Since then, step has really progressed and become an important part of sororities and fraternities all over the US, as well as getting incorporated into the culture of hip hop. In our performance, we are really trying to go back to the origin of step by stepping without music. In addition, RUCKUS is beginning to transition into a team that is more step heavy than dance, and this will be evident in our performance. We believe that due to RUCKUS' unique nature we definitely support DiverCity's overarching theme of diversity and inclusion.
Originally, danzon orchestras consisted of e typical orchestra instruments. Later, danzon bands were downsized to smaller charangas, that eventually would add congo drums to their ensemble. In 1938, Orestes Lopez and Cacharo Lopez, considered the “inventors of mambo,” wrote the song Mambo, which was a danzon, but also included rhythms from African folk music. This afro-cubanism mash up would be different from the typical danzon and so, the mambo was born. Mambo included very little vocal sections, if any, but was primarily instrumental dance music.