Agbekor : History and Contemporary Performance Legends of Origin : Agbekor is a style of dance by the West African peoples of Ewe and Foh. It is an ancient dance once known as Atamga‚ Ga meaning ’great’‚ Atam meaning ’oath’. The word agbekor is a compound of two short words: agbe (“life”) and kor (“clear”). The professional performer Midao Gideon foli alorwoyie translets agbekor as “clear life”. Agbekor were inspired by the hunters’ observations of monkeys in the forest.
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West African Dance West African Dance originated in the region known as West Africa which consists of 18 countries; including Niger‚ Senegal‚ Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Stereotypes of African dancing were created in Europe and the Americas that even most westernized Africans began to accept‚ but the history of African dance dates back more than 3‚000 years ago. Scholars have found drawings of people dancing on the walls of rocks in countries like Algeria and Egypt. This shows how important dancing
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different types of dances but did you ever hear of the West African dance form? If you haven’t then we will tell you about‚ if you have then you will learn more about it. African dance refers mainly to the dance of Sub Saharan Africa‚ and more appropriately African dances because of the many cultural differences in musical and movement styles. These dances must be viewed in close connection with Sub Saharan African music traditions and Bantu cultivation of rhythm. African dance utilizes the concept
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HOW DO THE CARIBBEAN PEOPLE RESPOND TO OPPRESSION? 2. OPPRESSION Oppression is the experience of repeated‚ widespread‚ systemic injustice. It need not be extreme and involve the legal system (as in slavery‚ apartheid‚ or the lack of right to vote) nor violent (as in tyrannical societies). 3. What Really happened Between 1662 and 1807‚ Britain shipped 3.1 million Africans across the Atlantic ocean in the transatlantic slave trade. Africans were forcibly brought to British owned colonies in the Caribbean
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Topic: Defining the Caribbean Thesis: The Caribbean‚ also known as the West Indies is defined as a broad crescent of tropical islands extending from the Bahamas and Cuba southwards to Trinidad with varied history resulting from the various races of people and various cultures characterized by different languages‚ music and dance. Topic | Sentence | The physical landscape | The crescent shaped physical landscape of the Caribbean is located between ten and twenty degrees north and eighty
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Slavery was a system of forced labour implemented by the Europeans in the Caribbean. It was the act by which the Europeans brought Africans to the Caribbean on different ships to work on their plantations against their wills. It started in the 1600’s‚ many slaves committed suicide even before they could reach to the plantations; many of them also fell sick and died. However‚ after many efforts to overthrow the slavery system in 1830’s the enslaved populations on the plantations were eventually freed
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the contributions of the various ethnic groups to Caribbean society The history of the Caribbean is rich with adventurous tales‚ blended cultures‚ and natural diversity. The impact of colonialism and slavery can still be seen in many of the island cultures today; so much so‚ in fact‚ that travellers often note a sense of living with the near-tangible history that permeates the region. Knowing the history of the Caribbean region goes a long way toward understanding its people
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CARIBBEAN MUSIC Introduction: Caribbean music originated from the Caribbean Islands‚ also known as the West Indies‚ and is a mixture of West African and European predominantly Spanish influences. The music has its origin when West African slaves were brought to Caribbean Island. They composed music with the help of percussion instruments like drums‚ bells and shakers. The music had unique musical style elements with special tempo-setting rhythms created by claves or bells‚ multi-layered and
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Roderick Lu Music 104-02 What is meant by Caribbean music in a new mode? What emphasis‚ in this chapter‚ seems to justify a departure from traditional presentations of music and culture of the Caribbean? Caribbean music in a new mode it’s meant that it probes the African antecedents retained in the region’s religious rituals. The chapter further contends that in the African-derived context‚ no distinction is made between sacred and secular‚ and that popular festivals like carnival‚ rara‚ junkannu
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Is the Caribbean a geographical region defined by proximity to a body of water? Is it a group of nations defined by a common history or culture or by political links? Is there such a thing as a Caribbean identity or spirit or culture shared by all the territories clustered around the Caribbean Sea‚ regardless of language or political status? Do we as a Caribbean people act as members of a community or a culture that extends beyond the shores of individual islands? This essay will seek to show
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