On the journey to become culturally competent‚ one must be able to immerse his or her self behind the lenses of another person’s eyes. Performing an interview to assess a culture lush in heritage‚ yet burdened with injustice‚ provided valuable insight in appreciating the Haitian Americans. Haiti is a gem‚ located among many islands in the beautiful Caribbean Sea. Haitians have weathered instability and chaos but are strong and resilient. Although Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western part
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Hip Hop Music Music 106HH Spring 2011 Instructor : Glen Garrett Office : Cy 209 Credit : 3 Units Phone : ex3172 Day Fridays Email : glen.r.garrett@csun.edu Time : 2pm-4:45pm Office Hours : M&W 9am-10am Location : Cy 159 F 1pm-2pm Course Description: This course is a historical survey of Hip Hop culture and its ”Four Elements”. Particular emphasis will be placed on the music that accompanies
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in Africa sometimes use call-and-response techniques to tell their stories. Poetry‚ often sung‚ includes: narrative epic‚ occupational verse‚ ritual verse‚ praise poems to rulers and other prominent people. Praise singers‚ bards sometimes known as "griots"‚ tell their stories with music.[3] Also recited‚ often sung‚ are love songs‚ work songs‚ children ’s songs‚ along withepigrams‚ proverbs and riddles. A revised edition of Ruth Finnegan ’s classic Oral Literature in Africa was released by the Cambridge-based Open
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African literature From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia African literature refers to literature of and from Africa. While the European perception of literature generally refers to written letters‚ the African concept includes oral literature (or "orature"‚ in the term coined by Ugandan scholar Pio Zirimu) As George Joseph notes in his chapter on African literature in Understanding Contemporary Africa‚ whereas European views of literature often stressed a separation of art and content‚ African awareness
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over 20 years in the United States. In fact‚ one can trace the history of rap back to the West African professional singers/storytellers known as Griots. However‚ it is not my intention to discuss in my unit the connection between the Griots and American rap music. Although‚ I will assign my students the task of doing a brief report on the African Griots prior to beginning my unit to help illustrate to my students that rapping has a long and illustrious history. I strongly suggest that anyone using
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Afrocentrism vs. Eurocentrism | Afrocentrism and Eurocentrism differ in many ways‚ and have help to advance the cause of both Africans and Europeans throughout history. Some would argue that had it not been for Eurocentrism Afrocentrism would never have existed‚ and in a sense the former is responsible for the creation of the latter. The manner in which both ethnocentric ideas view the world are totally different from one another but they are alike in the sense that they strive to place each
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Hip hop music‚ also called hip-hop‚[1][2] rap music‚[2][3][4] or hip-hop music‚[2][5] is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping‚ a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.[2] It developed as part of hip hop culture‚ a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping‚ DJing/scratching‚ break dancing‚ and graffiti writing.[6][7][8] Other elements include sampling (or synthesis)‚ and beatboxing. While often used to refer to rapping
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The Effect of the Slave Trade on West Africa NAME: CHRISTAL BENJAMIN QUESTION: WHAT WERE THE SOCIAL‚ ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE SLAVE TRADE ON WEST AFRICA The Social‚ Economic and Political Effects of the Slave Trade On West Africa The trade of West African slaves for European commodities began in the fifteenth century. From its inception up to the late seventeenth century‚ the scale of the slave trade could be considered quite small when compared to the dramatic
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This booklet is provided free of charge ACT Preparing for the Assessment ® What’s Inside... ● Strategies to Prepare for the Test ● What to Expect on Test Day ● New Full-Length Practice Test 2003–2004 An ACT Program for Educational Planning IC 080192030 Preparing for the ACT Assessment ® Contents Additional ACT Preparation Materials 1. General Preparation for the ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Use of Calculators on the ACT Assessment Mathematics Test . . . . . . . .
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the legacy left‚ concentrating on the music that was influenced as well as the resulting change in fashion and political views. Historical roots & influence The East coast was influenced somewhat by the traditions of West African culture‚ the Griots dating back hundreds of years who travelled as poets and lyricists‚ contributed greatly to the lyricism of East coast hip-hop; the music of the Last Poets‚ Gil Scott-Heron and Jalal Mansur Nurriddin‚ had great importance to the development of east
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