Syllabus for African Dance MPADE-UE 1542.002 Spring 2013 Contact hours: Wednesday‚ 1:30-3:30pm‚ studio 304 Education building Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions‚ Program in Dance Education New York University Instructor: Alfdaniels Mabingo Phone: 917-679-8119 E-mail: <alfmab@gmail.com> Consultation: By appointment ----------------------------------------- A survey course in East African dance with accompanying songs‚ music‚ and cultural contexts in which these
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Another important contribution from the African Diaspora is the circulation of new African ideas and mechanism. They were able to distribute not only healing‚ or new philosophies‚ but also a variety of mechanism such as the rice agricultural system and the idea of symbolic interactions in the “Belly of the Frog” believe. Gilroy develops in his article‚ “The fractal patterns of cultural and political exchange and transformation that we try and specify…indicate how both ethnicities and political cultures
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Africa and increased its trade‚ many Islamic states rose and fell‚ but many aspects of African religion and gender roles remained unchanged. Between 1000 and 1700‚ Islam caused West Africa to experience an increase in trade and economic activity‚ the rise and fall of several Islamic states and empires‚ and provided new practices to be blended with the traditional African culture. In the period of 1000 and 1750 C.E Islam increased West African economics by increasing trade. Muslim merchants brought
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African Americans can trace their religious roots back to African religions‚ Judaism‚ Islam and Christianity. Christianity for the majority of African Americans became the dominated religion because of evangelism by Europeans. Instead of keeping the enslaved Africans submissive and in line Christianity enriched and strengthened the lives of African Americans to seek their freedom. Several of the insurrection and antislavery movements were born in the African American church. From its inception the
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Topic: What was Realpolitik? Evaluate the political leaders after 1850 to determine whether they upheld this idea. Realpolitik is the idea of doing what is good for your country‚ and not caring about the affect it has on other countries. Throughout 1850‚ there was a series of leaders that upheld the idea of Realpolitik. Europe was going through many crisis’s during this time‚ poverty was high and the economy was very bad. Leaders were just fighting for ways to help out their countries that
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“African- American‚ Exodus‚ and the American Israel” by Albert J. Raboteau is an excerpt from “African- American Christianity” essay where the author questions about African –American identity that was described in the bible. The purpose of this essay to illustrate how white Americans and African-American see the nation America in a different perspective. In the essay‚ the author questions the reasons for slavery that brings a lot of sufferings for the black people and how day by day religion was
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The Impact of the Sugar and Silver Trade webs on the pertinent nations and the rest of the world (15-18th Century) The world we currently inhabit is one of fierce globalization‚ where international trade has been flourishing for centuries‚ and we find ourselves at a point in human existence where almost 90% of the goods such as electronic items sold in the United States are produced in Far East Asian countries such as China and Taiwan. A few centuries ago‚ though‚ the world was a far more closed
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Years of a Slave Throughout our lives up until this point we have witness one major atrocity after another‚ as if history was made to repeat itself. It is at these times of great adversity that we truly discover just how the human mind and spirit has come to persevere in these dark times and how it exactly does so. it takes the impact of a single event like the enslavement of another human being only to be judged by the color of their skin is where we find a strange sense of community and finding
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of a slave ship from the Atlantic slave trade. (From an Abstract of Evidence delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons in 1790 and 1791). The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World‚ as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods‚ which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans‚ who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves; the
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12 Years a Slave is a historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen based on the life of Solomon Northup and his memoir Twelve Years a Slave. The film was released on October 18‚ 2013‚ starring award-winning actors and actresses‚ Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup‚ Lupita Nyong’o as Patsey‚ Brad Pitt as Samuel Bass‚ and Benedict Cumberbatch as William Ford. McQueen received near-universal praise by audiences and critics for McQueen’s directing‚ the acting‚ and the dedication to depicting Solomon
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