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Author : Thomas Albert Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015046488147
A comprehensive illustrated portrait of griots and griottes including extensive reference materials.
Author : Thomas A. Hale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112082801660
"Alex Haley, author of the phenomenal best-seller Roots, reconstructed his family's past with the aid of a griot, an African oral historian/musician/diplomat/advisor (among many other roles). The well-illustrated Griots and Griottes is the first comprehensive portrait of the world of this profession, starting with its discovery by the outside world in 1352 by a North African traveler up to the present. Based on over 30 years of research and travel in Africa, Griots and Griottes tells the story of these remarkable wordsmiths and performers."--Publisher's website
Author : Kofi Piesie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798987232590
Kofi Piesie Da Griot and Seanathan The Griot Polidore have teamed up for this publication entitled The Modern Day Griots & Griotte: The New Generation. This publication was put together to inspire the next/new generation of writers, authors, leaders, poets, storytellers, and musicians. Also, both authors are trying to inspire a Modern Day Griot and Griotte movement from state to state and possibly from country to country. Griots and Griotte were important figures in their community for the many roles and skills they possessed. In this day and time, with the book's banns across the states and the misrepresentation of our Ancestor's contributions. We need Modern Day Griots more than ever. Kofi and Seanathan are asking If you are a teacher, professor, writer, author, musician, public speaker, news anchor, radio host, and poet, and you are about your people, please be a part of this Modern Day Griots & Griotte movement. This publication will give more insight into what a Griot & Griotte is and what a Modern-Day Griot looks like today.
Author : Omkar N. Koul,Kashi Wali
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134931187
Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics. Kashmiri is spoken by approximately 3,000,000 people. Its syntax, similar to Germanic and other verb second languages, has raised many significant issues within current generative theories proposed by Chomsky and other prominent linguists.
Author : Thomas Albert Hale,Thomas A. Hale
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253209900
Askia Mohammed is the most famous leader in the history of the Songhay Empire, which reached its apogee during his reign in 1493-1528. Songhay, approximately halfway between the present-day cities of Timbuktu in Mali and Niamey in Niger, became a political force beginning in 1463, under the leadership of Sonni Ali Ber. By the time of his death in 1492, the foundation had been laid for the development under Askia Mohammed of a complex system of administration, a well-equipped army and navy, and a network of large government-owned farms. The present rendition of the epic was narrated by the griot (or jeseré) Nouhou Malio over two evenings in Saga, a small town on the Niger River, two miles downstream from Niamey. The text is a word-for-word translation from Nouhou Malio's oral performance.
Author : Thomas A. Hale,Aissata G. Sidikou
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253010216
Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and beyond, the essays attest to the importance of women's contributions to the most widespread form of verbal art in Africa.
Author : Dave Kobrenski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0982668937
In Drawing on Culture, artist and ethnomusicologist Dave Kobrenski explores traditional cultures from around the world. West Africa is the first in the series and consists of more than 30 artworks done on location while traveling through villages along the Niger River in Guinée. Through detailed field drawings accompanied by his own notes, Kobrenski provides a glimpse into the lives and culture of a people maintaining their ancient traditions, even as the modern world encroaches.
Author : Jean-Philippe Marcoux
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739166741
This study is about how four representative African American poets in the 1960s, Langston Hughes, Umbra’s David Henderson, and the Black Arts Movement’s Sonia Sanchez, and Amiri Baraka engage, in the tradition of African griots, in poetic dialogues with aesthetics, music, politics, and Black History, and in so doing narrate, using jazz as meta-language, genealogies, etymologies, cultural legacies, and Black (hi)stories. In intersecting and complementary ways, Hughes, Henderson, Sanchez, and Baraka fashioned their griotism from theorizations of artistry as political engagement, and, in turn, formulated a Black aesthetic based on jazz performativity –a series of jazz-infused iterations that form a complex pattern of literary, musical, historical, and political moments in constant cross-fertilizing dialogues with one another. This form of poetic call-and-response is essential for it allows the possibility of intergenerational dialogues between poets and musicians as well as dialogical potential between song and politics, between Africa and Black America, within the poems. More importantly, these jazz dialogisms underline the construction of the Black Aesthetic as conceptualized respectively by the griotism of Hughes, of Henderson, and of Sanchez and Baraka.
Author : Abiola Irele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195334739
From St. Augustine and early Ethiopian philosophers to the anti-colonialist movements of Pan-Africanism and Negritude, this encyclopedia offers a comprehensive view of African thought, covering the intellectual tradition both on the continent in its entirety and throughout the African Diaspora in the Americas and in Europe. The term "African thought" has been interpreted in the broadest sense to embrace all those forms of discourse - philosophy, political thought, religion, literature, important social movements - that contribute to the formulation of a distinctive vision of the world determined by or derived from the African experience. The Encyclopedia is a large-scale work of 350 entries covering major topics involved in the development of African Thought including historical figures and important social movements, producing a collection that is an essential resource for teaching, an invaluable companion to independent research, and a solid guide for further study.
Author : Robert B Winans
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252050640
The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States. The contributors provide detailed ethnographic and technical research on gourd lutes and ekonting in Africa and the banza in Haiti while also investigating tuning practices and regional playing styles. Other essays place the instrument within the context of slavery, tell the stories of black banjoists, and shed light on the banjo's introduction into the African- and Anglo-American folk milieus. Wide-ranging and illustrated with twenty color images, Banjo Roots and Branches offers a wealth of new information to scholars of African American and folk musics as well as the worldwide community of banjo aficionados. Contributors: Greg C. Adams, Nick Bamber, Jim Dalton, George R. Gibson, Chuck Levy, Shlomo Pestcoe, Pete Ross, Tony Thomas, Saskia Willaert, and Robert B. Winans.
Author : Marloes Janson
Publisher : Leiden University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015051822370
Griottes (female bards) are a striking feature of Mandinka culture. They can be recognized by their flamboyant style of dressing and their sharp voices. Nevertheless, griottes have largely been neglected in scientific literature, while ample attention has been paid to griots (male bards). This book tries to fill the gap. Marloes Janson lived with the griottes from a Mandinka community in eastern Gambia for more than a year and was trained by them as an apprentice. From this perspective she describes the daily life and concerns of the griottes, their skills, their techniques for learning the profession, their means of subsistence, their relationships with the griots and their patrons. The main activity of griottes is daaniroo. When they set out for daaniroo, they praise their patrons, and in return they are rewarded with money or goods. This book shows that daaniroo is a highly controversial practice. It is sometimes considered a new development, while at the same time it fits in with the bardic tradition. Some patrons disapprove of daaniroo, yet they are dependent on it to have their prestige confirmed. Several Koranic scholars regard daaniroo as conflicting with Islam, while the griottes do their best to embed their activities in an Islamic discourse. By studying the gendered practice of daaniroo, the dynamics of female 'griotism' are demonstrated. (In English, 322 pp. incl. bibl.& index) 'A very fine achievement that gives scholars of Africa, performance, and gender much richness to build on.' - Caroline Bledsoe in: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 11, no. 4, Dec. 2005, pp.874-875.
Author : Rufus Burrow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498237659
The Church of God Reformation Movement (founded in 1881) has the distinction of having been founded on the two core principles of holiness and visible unity. Standard histories of the group proudly argue that the founder and pioneers exhibited a zeal for interracial unity that began to wane only in the early years of the twentieth century. This book rejects that claim and argues instead that little to no extant hard evidence supports that view. Moreover, Making Good the Claim argues that while blacks eagerly joined the group, they did so not because whites expended much energy evangelizing among them but because they heard something deeper in the message of holiness and visible unity than God's expectation that members achieve spiritual and church unity. Unlike most whites, blacks interpreted the message to call for unity along racial lines as well. This book challenges members of the Church of God to begin forthwith to make good their historic claim about holiness and visible unity, particularly as it applies to interracial unity.
Author : Jonathan Rieder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620400609
"I am in Birmingham because injustice is here," declared Martin Luther King, Jr. He had come to that city of racist terror convinced that massive protest could topple Jim Crow. But the insurgency faltered. To revive it, King made a sacrificial act on Good Friday, April 12, 1963: he was arrested. Alone in his cell, reading a newspaper, he found a statement from eight "moderate" clergymen who branded the protests extremist and "untimely." King drafted a furious rebuttal that emerged as the "Letter from Birmingham Jail"-a work that would take its place among the masterpieces of American moral argument alongside those of Thoreau and Lincoln. His insistence on the urgency of "Freedom Now" would inspire not just the marchers of Birmingham and Selma, but peaceful insurgents from Tiananmen to Tahrir Squares. Scholar Jonathan Rieder delves deeper than anyone before into the Letter-illuminating both its timeless message and its crucial position in the history of civil rights. Rieder has interviewed King's surviving colleagues, and located rare audiotapes of King speaking in the mass meetings of 1963. Gospel of Freedom gives us a startling perspective on the Letter and the man who wrote it: an angry prophet who chastised American whites, found solace in the faith and resilience of the slaves, and knew that moral appeal without struggle never brings justice.
Author : Donald R. Wehrs
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754660885
Donald Wehrs explores pioneering narrative representations of pre-colonial African history and society in texts by Casely Hayford, Alhaji Sir Abubaker Tafawa Balewa, Paul Hazoumé, D.O. Fagunwa, Amos Tutuola, and Chinua Achebe. By highlighting the role of pre-colonial political economies and articulations of state power on colonial-era considerations of ethical and political issues, his book supplements recent work on the importance of indigenous contexts and discourses in situating colonial-era narratives.
Author : Philip M. Peek,Kwesi Yankah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135948733
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.