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Author : Jeremy Pelt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736663607
A collection of musician-to-musician interviews centered around Black social issues in Jazz.
Author : Barbara G. Hoffman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253108937
Griots at War Conflict, Conciliation, and Caste in Mande Barbara G. Hoffman An extraordinary account of conflict and peacemaking among griots. "... a compelling study of how social identities and relationships are constructed and reconstructed through action, specifically through speech.... The book succeeds marvelously in conveying the voice of the people who are, in every sense of the word, its subject." -- Robert Launay In 1985, while she was an apprentice griot or jelimuso, Barbara G. Hoffman saw and recorded a remarkable event in the small town of Kita, Mali. For four days, thousands of griots from all parts of the Mande world gathered to talk, sing, and make music in celebration of the opening of the new Hall of Griots and the installation of the recently named Head Griot. This unprecedented assembly also marked the end of a deadly two-year conflict fought with griot weapons -- words, reputations, and sorcery. Hoffman captures griots making speeches, singing songs of praise, and dancing in honor of their restored unity. Her discerning interpretations of the speeches not only explore the art of griot oratory but show how the use of history, metaphor, religion, proverbs, and praise can mend a community torn apart by war. The speeches, often marked by a keen edge, also reveal what it means to be a griot in a casted society and to demand that other castes recognize and respect this unique identity. The griot's formidable linguistic abilities come to the fore as they negotiate, reestablish, and assert their cultural power. This exceptional book, including generous extracts from the griots' speeches in Mande and in translation, offers surprising and important insights into the multiple meanings of Mande culture, caste, and identity. Barbara G. Hoffman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Cleveland State University. She is author of many essays on Mande culture and producer of ethnographic videos on East and West African cultures. She is known to the Mande griot community as Jeli Jeneba Jabate. Contents Prologue: An Invitation to War Power and Paradox: Griots and Mande Social Organization In the Hands of Speech: Mande Discourse A History of Fadenya: Interpretations of the Kita Griot War Making Boundaries: When Griots Speak before Nobles Breaking Boundaries: When Nobles Speak before Griots The Healer Who Is Ill Must Swallow His Own Saliva: When Griots Speak to Griots Caste, Mande Style Epilogue: A Wound Cannot Heal on Pus
Author : Banning Eyre
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1566397596
A narrative of life among the griot musicians of Mali. Born into families where music and the tradition of griot story-telling are heritages and privileges, the musicians live their lives at the intersection of ancient traditions and the modern entertainment industry.
Author : Thomas Jacob
Publisher : Thomas Jacob
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Step into the circle of the Griot, the revered storyteller who weaves the rich tapestry of West African culture. Griot's Wisdom offers a captivating collection of folktales, proverbs, and wise sayings passed down through generations. Each story is a treasure trove, brimming with humor, cultural insights, and timeless wisdom. Explore tales that celebrate courage, illuminate life's complexities, and offer valuable lessons about love, overcoming challenges, and finding meaning in everyday experiences. Griot's Wisdom is a captivating journey into the heart of West African culture, a testament to the enduring power of storytelling.
Author : Steven Green,Karen Richardson
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Africans
ISBN : 9781553956310
Birthed at the popular open-mic series, La Parole, T-Dot Griots is an intimate journey through previously undocumented Canadian experiences, reporting from Toronto's black communities in fiction, poetry, articles, plays and songs. The book features contributions by over forty writers of African descent, either raised in or residing in Toronto. The griot is a West African storyteller, traditionally responsible for presiding over all of the important milestones in the life a community. T Dot Griots is a window into the communities occupied by black Canadian artists depicting their experiences living in the African diaspora. The griot carried the important function of preserving the community's history and culture through songs and recitations. Now transported across the Atlantic Ocean, non-traditional methods of expression emerge to document the existence of a little known group of people: the black community of Toronto. Toronto is widely acknowledged as the world's most culturally diverse city. T Dot Griots was produced to portray the rich cultural diversity existing within its African communities. The anthology brings together spoken word poets and PhD's, hip hop artists and playwrights, students and professionals. The book voices issues of racial inequality and immigrant experiences. It illustrates numerous spiritual vantage points and political commentaries. Most of all it is an unapologetically accurate representation of an ever growing canon of writers making Toronto their home, who wish to acknowledge the many facets of African-Canadian identity. Immerse yourself in the words, work and life of East, West and Southern Africans. Plunge into the hybridized dialect of Caribbean natives and descendents. Wade through generations of celebrated cast of Toronto's outspoken voices. Listen to the T Dot Griot tell the tale of the ages in a proudly Canadian style.
Author : Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739166741
To the endless questions, theoretical statements, and hypotheses about how Black poets transcribe jazz into the poetic format, this book, while providing a different approach to reading jazz poetry, attempts to answer the question, why do Black poets revert to jazz for poetic material. This book’s answer is because jazz is Black History ritualized and performed, and jazz performance is storytelling.
Author : Kermit Ernest Campbell
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 081432925X
A critical work on the African American vernacular tradition and its expression in contemporary Hip hop.
Author : Yvvana Yeboah Duku,Adeola Egbeyemi,Onyka Gairey,Saherla Osman,Kais Padamshi,Omi Rodney
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039005068
Nia Centre for the Arts is a Toronto-based charity that supports, promotes, and showcases art from across the Afro-Diaspora. We build the creative capacity of our community and support the development of a healthy identity in young people through artistic development, mentorship and employment opportunities. We are a platform for the arts that is rooted in the diversity of Black-Canadian experiences. In 2021, we hand-selected six emerging writers to participate in the Black Pen writing intensive program. The writers in this program challenged themselves, honed into their craft, stepped into their greatness and dedicated themselves to their collective manuscript—GRIOT: Sojourn into the Dark. Follow the writers through a deep and authentic exploration of their literary voices as we ‘Sojourn into the Dark’; a collection of fiction and nonfiction that crosses borders, from Nigeria to Jamaica, explores themes of loss and connection, and embraces tradition while pushing the art of storytelling forward.
Author : Adam J. Banks
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809330201
Scholar Adam J. Banks offers a mixtape of African American digital rhetoric in his innovative study Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age. Presenting the DJ as a quintessential example of the digital griot-high-tech storyteller-this book shows how African American storytelling traditions and their digital manifestations can help scholars and teachers shape composition studies, thoroughly linking oral, print, and digital production in ways that centralize African American discursive practices as part of a multicultural set of ideas and pedagogical commitments. DJs are models of rhetorical excellence; canon makers; time binders who link past, present, and future in the groove and mix; and intellectuals continuously interpreting the history and current realities of their communities in real time. Banks uses the DJ's practices of the mix, remix, and mixtape as tropes for reimagining writing instruction and the study of rhetoric. He combines many of the debates and tensions that mark black rhetorical traditions and points to ways for scholars and students to embrace those tensions rather than minimize them. This commitment to both honoring traditions and embracing futuristic visions makes this text unique, as do the sites of study included in the examination: mixtape culture, black theology as an activist movement, everyday narratives, and discussions of community engagement. Banks makes explicit these connections, rarely found in African American rhetoric scholarship, to illustrate how competing ideologies, vernacular and academic writing, sacred and secular texts, and oral, print, and digital literacies all must be brought together in the study of African American rhetoric and in the teaching of culturally relevant writing. A remarkable addition to the study of African American rhetorical theory and composition studies, Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age will compel scholars and students alike to think about what they know of African American rhetoric in fresh and useful ways.
Author : Linda Goss,Marian E. Barnes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780671671686
Contains almost 100 stories by famous yarn-spinners from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean, ranging from ghost stories to ghetto adventures.
Author : K. Martial Frindéthié
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786453566
Setting the stage for a critical encounter between Francophone African cinema and Continental European critical theory, this book offers a transnational and interdisciplinary analysis of 16 Francophone African films, including Bassek Ba Kobhio’s The Great White Man of Lambaréné, Cheick Oumar Sissoko’s Guimba the Tyrant, and Amadou Seck’s Saaraba. The author invites readers to study these films in the context of transnational conversations between African filmmakers and the conventional theorists whose works are more readily available in academia. The book examines black French filmmakers’ treatments of a number of cross-cultural themes, including intercontinental encounters and reciprocity, ideology and subjective freedom, governance and moral responsibility, sexuality and social order, and globalization. Throughout the work, the presentation of literary theory is accessible by both beginning and advanced students of film and culture. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : African Americans
ISBN : NWU:35556019821867
Author : Gordon Innes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135753016
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Aija Poikāne-Daumke
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 3825896129
This book investigates the development of Afro-German literature in the context of the African American experience and shows the decisive role of literature for the emergence of the Afro-German Movement. Various Afro-German literary and cultural initiatives, which began in the 1980s, arose as a response to the experience of being marginalized - to the point of invisibility - within a dominant Eurocentric culture that could not bring the notions of "Black" and "German" together in a meaningful way. The book is a significant contribution to the understanding of German literature as multi-ethnic and of the the transatlantic networks operating in the African Diasporas.
Author : Banning Eyre
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 0739024744
Banning Eyre, a recognized expert in African guitar music, guides you through a variety of important styles, including congolese, mbira, Malian blues, and juju. Learn about the history of this music, the pioneering musicians that developed each style, and the dominant characteristics and techniques necessary to play this remarkable music. All material is presented in standard notation and TAB. A CD demonstrating examples and compositions in the book makes learning easy and trouble-free for all players.