The montuno involves a rhythmic backbeat infused with often-improvised solos. These solos became the focus of the mambo, and the most important part of the song. Danzon is widely considered the official style of music in Cuba. The danzon style of music was heavily influenced by the French-Haitian contradance, which was imported to Cuba from Haiti. Originally, danzon orchestras consisted of e typical orchestra instruments.
They wore short skirts and had their hair bobbed. The flappers drank, listened to Jazz music and smoked. They were called flappers because of the way that they flapped there arms like birds. When dancing the Charleston the flappers wore loose straight dresses that came just below the knees, men wore Raccoon Coats and Straw Hats. The Charleston can be danced either in partners or as a solo.
One can see this in the chorography throughout the piece. A specific example of this is in the middle of the dance, when the male does a petite rond de jambe over the girl into a hinge on releve with his back against the wall as if he were on the ledge of a building trying not to fall off. The use of space is also shown in the levels of the choreography. The dancers stay within a mid to low level on the stage and against the wall. Suggesting a fallen earth bound morality that is not elevated.
He is truly being inspired from a more simple and humble beginning in the West Indies when he strips down his dancers in “From Before” to just the bare essentials. Garth Fagan is clearly expressing culture through dance as his choreography draws upon African and West Indian roots for inspiration. He expresses context by stripping down his performers to very bare costumes and thus taking African dance and applying it in a unconventional situation. Tradition, I feel ties into culture in this case and is expressed by the preservation throughout the performance of many of the same movements used in African dance. Garth Fagan expresses value by although changing the context of African dance he has preserved the
The elders banish him and Mumble embarks on a quest to find his true identity. In the same way language in Feliks Skryznecki is an important aspect of cultural identity, so too is singing the heart-song in Happy Feet. Mumbles inability to perform this ritual results in his alienation and unhappiness. Mumble is eventually renowned for his dancing and uses this newly developed talent to re-connect with Memphis, his father, and penguin society. Dialogue in the film in an exchange between Memphis and Mumble: Whatcha doin' there, boy?, [tap dancing] I'm happy, Pa!
Music Template Cesar Liriano Kaplan University HU300 –10 Art and Humanities: 20th Century and Beyond Robert Vaughan 8/21/13 I was born in a country side of the Dominican Republic, in a small town located in the north side. The music that the people used to normally listen to is call Merengue Tipico and sometimes romantic music. However, in any celebration or reunion the Merengue Tipico was the main one because it is for dancing and we really had a good time. As I grew up, I started to listen to other types of music but the Merengue was in my veins because I grew up listening and dancing it. 1.
Salsa This week in our World Music class we focused on the history and characteristics of salsa music and dances. I learned how to dance salsa when we had guests Johnny and Hannah who also came to teach us African dancing. I liked dancing salsa it was easy to grasp and fun in the way that I picked it up easy. Most people don’t know that salsa might be sang in Spanish but it is unique combination of the Puerto Ricans migrating to New York bringing Cuban music and the African Americans already living in New York Jazz music. When your learning the salsa it is very important that you know about the history.
Emma Crockett also benefited from being free, because she recalls that “after emancipation, she learned to read a bit of printing...” Also, a slave from North Carolina called Tempe Herndon Durham stated that he rented his master’s plantation until his family saved enough money to buy their own farm. Richard Toler expressed that “...after emancipation he earned his living as a smith for 36 years. After the Civil War he bought a fiddle, and became an accomplished musician, playing for white dances and at hoe downs.” (Fort and Hall) All these testimonies can prove that for many slaves, emancipation had a very positive result and they learned to fight for their independence and maintain their lives at the ways
Minstrel Shows Minstrel shows developed in the 1840’s, peaked after the Civil War and remained popular into the early 1900s. Minstrel shows emerged from preindustrial European traditions of masking and carnival. Minstrelsy was a product of its time, white men blackened their faces with burnt cork to lampoon Negroes, performing songs and skits that sentimentalized the slave life on Southern plantations. Blacks were shown as naive buffoons who sang and danced the days away, gobbling "chitlins," stealing the occasional watermelon, and expressing their inexplicable love for "ol' massuh." By the Civil War the minstrel show had become world famous and respectable.
Doing research on my own Voodoo was widely practiced in Veracruz, where many African slaves first arrived to be sold. Zapateo is traditional Mexican dance that has a link to African slave dances. Baldongas music and dance combined both indigenous and African traditions in one. Both traditions are still widely used in Mexico. Our food like mococo, fufu, mofongo, and fried juca were food that slaves made and us Mexicans use.