Music of Africa

AFST 201W Mengyao Li Prof.E.Julmisse 10/22/15 African Culture Africa is located in the south of the Mediterranean Sea and Europe with the Indian Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. For most people, Africa is a mystery, a dream, a place often gives people unlimited reveries. where the dense lush tropical rainforest, the world 's most vast expanse of the Sahara, there is quaint rough customs, as well as their rich flavor food. To me, before I really search African, I thought

Amandela! Throughout the film Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, black South Africans began converting their historical roots in music into a fight for freedom. As these oppressed individuals struggled for racial equality during the twentieth century, music classified as freedom songs emerged as the fight against the inhumane Apartheid intensified. These freedom songs, which are performed and played throughout the film, protest white supremacy and segregation using a combination of inspiring

defined as a feeling of sorrow, sadness, mournful, or depression. Jonathan Curiel, the author of the article states blues music were used by slaves to discuss the harsh treatment, sad times, and a yearning to escape to freedom. Sylviane Diouf plays two recordings, The Muslim call to prayer, and "Levee Camp Holler" in order to show the connection between Islam and American blues music. “Levee Camp Holler” is a product of ex- slaves who worked doing manual labor during the Post-Civil- War America. The

1. Music is an expressive language of culture. All today’s black American music is from Africa. Migrations of African peoples brought musical styles and instruments to new areas. Ancient African cultures included music in their everyday live (Hassan 2012). It survived the shock of migration of millions of African slaves to the Americas, and after 300 years of slavery the old sounds of Africa became the new sounds of black America (Sambol). Slaves generated their rhythms while they were working. One

Introduction The American folk music legend Sixto Diaz Rodriguez known as Rodriguez. A Motown session musician Dennis Coffey, compared him to the Godfather of socially conscious rock, Bob Dylan. Rodriguez is a Mexican American, born in Detroit, U.S.A in 1942. His parents were working class Mexicans that immigrated to Detroit to work for the automobile companies that were offering large salaries at the time. In this period the Mexican immigrants in America especially in this area of Detroit were

Music changes so often that it is hard to know what artists are going to come out with next. Music changes to the artist and to society. Society is very different now than it was even ten years ago. I agree and disagree with statements made in the article “Music can change the world” by Dana Da Silva. People and societies change over time and music has to change with them. I agree that music has come along way from what it used to be in the era of jazz and rock and roll. Silva stated that “South

North African Youth’s Search for Cultural Identity Many young North Africans struggle to find a cultural identity that fits them. There are several reasons that this is issue is so prevalent in North Africa. Many aspects of the foreign involvement that North Africa has been subjected to have impeded the regions ability to forge national identities. The results of this lack of identity have been varied and, while some young North Africans have turned to destructive behaviors, others have made the

status equivalent in Africa to Elvis or the Beatles in the West. These collections allow the listener to discover not only the evolution of a musical genius, but also the history

cultural traditions of African ethnic groups brought here during slavery. The U.S. Census Bureau defines African Americans as "a person having origins in any of the Black race groups of Africa."[1]. African American culture is derived chiefly from people originated from sub-Saharan and Sahelian cultures in Africa. Over hundreds of years, black culture has partially been assimilated into western ideals in America. However, despite the persistent persecutions of “slave culture”, the African influences

During the Aboriginal Australian portion of class, we talked about the re-articulation of music. This theme of re-articulation was seen in the 1991 song ‘Treaty’ by aboriginal Australian group Yothu Yindi, the Pygmy Hindewhu beats in Watermelon Man by Herbie Hancock and Sanctuary by Madonna, as well as Solomon Linda's Mbube, and a bit during Graceland. The re-articulation of music has been happening for decades and we’ve read about it in textbooks but most topics don’t affect people until they are