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.
As well as many other religions/likewise, traditional religions belong to those, whom practicing and celebrating life-cycle rituals play an essential role throughout the one’s life. In Africa; for example, the most popular yet well-known rituals such as, birth, coming of age, marriage, and death in general concepts are reasonably extensive between each other. First, the native African civilizations and their pattern of performing life-cycle practices are frequently initiated as some type of contributions to the familial/ancestral spirits. These offered gifts are a combination of food such as pumpkins, honey, and yams, with different beverages; for example, water or something stronger left at the worship places “… taken out and poured over the ancestral, burial ground” (Sinaiko, xli). Therefore, birth as a first ritual plays an important part, and shortly after birth, it is crucial to name a newborn baby.
They have created a strong economy through farming, trading, and art production. Their outstanding and unique artistic traditions include woodcarving, sculpture, metal work, textiles, and beadwork. Although I’m Nigerian there is much that I have to learn myself when it comes to the culture. I will be taking an in-depth look on the Yoruba’s history, cultural values, some important rituals and practices, religion and belief’s, and the role of gender. In the 4th century BC, Yoruba people we not initially known as Yoruba although they have common sentiments and share a common ethnicity and language group.
P2. Explain the practices and beliefs of individual from two contrasting religious groups/ secular beliefs Introduction This assignment will explain the practices and beliefs of individuals from two contrasting religious groups which are Rastafarianism and Spiritualism. Religion can be explained as a set of beliefs, cause, nature, and purpose of the universe. It is considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, which involves rituals observances and often contains moral code governing the conduct of human affairs. Rastafari is a young, Africa-centred religion which developed in Jamaica in the 1930s, following the coronation of Haile Selassie I as King of Ethiopia in 1930.
Traditional Native American ceremonial ways can vary widely, and are based on the differing histories and beliefs of individual tribes, clans and bands. Early European explorers describe individual Native American tribes and even small bands as each having their own religious practices. There are some features appear to be common to many basic religions that still exist or existed in some form in the nineteenth and twentieth century’s, when anthropologists began to study them. These features have begun also appeared in the historical religions of which we are aware. These common features are; • Animism • Magic •
The African tradition of decorating the body both enhances one’s beauty and gives a person a higher status in their tribe” (African). Although African body art and scarification fuels many prejudices about the African people from the outside world, body art has existed as an important aspect of African history that allows self-expression in various tribes because forms of body decoration have existed for over five thousand years. Body art has existed as an important aspect of African history because of the many styles of body decoration that exist. Africans use scarification, body paint, mud coloring, body piercing, and lip disks to embellish their bodies. Scarification, also known as “The Proud Mark”, describes the art where a person marks his or her skin in decorative patterns.
I submit that ancient Egyptian music shares many parallels with that played throughout so-called “traditional” Africa, both in instrumentation and in musical style. Furthermore, I shall propose the possibility that these parallels between Egypt and the rest of the African continent reflect not simply technological diffusion from the former to the latter, but instead can be traced to a common pan-African cultural root. In other words, not only did the Egyptians resemble Africans in certain cultural respects, they were themselves an African people. I shall start with the instrument toolkit. The musical instruments available in ancient Egypt can be sorted into three main categories: wind, string, and percussion.
The native people accepted Islam for many reasons and thus allowed leaders to imply new rules, regulations, and standards into society. My belief is that the government used Islam as a way to manipulate the people into accepting things without revolts, but the people probably saw it is a great religious reform. Islam, although seeming to unify during this time, has often caused problems in the present regarding religious rivalries and terrorist groups. The introduction of Islam in Africa created social, religious, and technological advances such as the creation of Swahili, the conversion of thousands of people and the building of mosques. Although some parts of Africa remained untouched by Islam, many others were often advanced in society.
Subordinate Groups Page 1 Subordinate Groups: African American: Living the Diaspora in the United States of America Augustine J. Zaizay, Jr PSRT 5320 Social and Cultural Diversity Dr Robin Eubanks June 5, 2009 African American: Living the Diaspora in the United States of America I am about to commence a study in the course, “Cultural Diversity”. Here, it is anticipated that at the end of the sojourn I will hold a different world view not just about other diverse cultural communities and their knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices, but I will also perceive my own individual and distinct culture from a different perspective. But quite paradoxical and very interesting, the very first written
A DISCUSSION OF THE IDEA THAT THE AFRICAN ANCESTOR IS ONLY VENERATED BUT NOT WORSHIPED. Introduction The very nature of the African traditional religion, that is its outlook to life, together with the nature of its practices, makes it susceptible to many descriptions which upon a close scrutiny turn up unfounded. One such accusation levelled against the African traditional religion is the claim that it is polytheistic. The thesis of this paper is that this claim is unfounded, and the writer proceeds to explore issues the world view of the African, and the nature of the hierarchy of the invisible world of the African, as a means of exposing how untrue it is that the African ancestor is worshipped. The African’s world view To the African, the world consists of two spheres,- the visible world, and the invisible world.