The Griot

Author : Frederick Gooding
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666908275

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The Griot Tradition as Remixed through Hip Hop by Frederick Gooding Pdf

Although Hip Hop is known to come from the streets of South Bronx, New York, its origins go far deeper than that. Unconsciously, the innovative souls of the 1970s Hip Hop movement demonstrated the captivating, vibrational sound of the five regions in Africa: Northern Africa, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa. Thus, The Griot Tradition as Remixed through Hip Hop: Straight Outta Africa fleshes out the common threads of Hip Hop’s creative genius across the African diaspora and provides an analytical rubric as a guide to a greater understanding of Hip Hop. The author, Frederick Gooding, examines why Hip Hop holds such an important place within contemporary culture in order to determine how a genre that was so controversial and marginal could become mainstream and central. Through the use of various genres, artists, styles, sounds, images, and rhetorical techniques, Gooding analyzes how Hip Hop, when seen through the lens of African connection, can be appreciated for its regenerative and connective power to create relationships between people both nationally and internationally.

Author : Banning Eyre
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1566397596

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In Griot Time by Banning Eyre Pdf

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 : Yvvana Yeboah Duku,Adeola Egbeyemi,Onyka Gairey,Saherla Osman,Kais Padamshi,Omi Rodney
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039005068

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Griot by Yvvana Yeboah Duku,Adeola Egbeyemi,Onyka Gairey,Saherla Osman,Kais Padamshi,Omi Rodney Pdf

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 : Jeremy Pelt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736663607

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Griot by Jeremy Pelt Pdf

A collection of musician-to-musician interviews centered around Black social issues in Jazz.

Author : Marie Milo
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781685703714

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Hopes for the Griot Hamlet by Marie Milo Pdf

Hopes for the Griot Hamlet covers the lives and families of two eighteenth-century women from different parts of the world. They wind up living and working on a plantation in Virginia, where their lives intertwine during the period of slavery. Pages of the saga cover the greed, lust, ambition, jealousy, and even murder of some of its characters. Hopes for the Griot Hamlet demonstrates how God has worked in the lives of people throughout the ages.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015075744923

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The Griot by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Stoller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0226775461

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The Cinematic Griot by Paul Stoller Pdf

The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinéma vérité and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often misunderstood figure in histories of anthropology and film. By examining Rouch's neglected ethnographic writings, Paul Stoller seeks to clarify the filmmaker's true place in anthropology. A brief account of Rouch's background, revealing the ethnographic foundations and intellectual assumptions underlying his fieldwork among the Songhay of Niger in the 1940s and 1950s, sets the stage for his emergence as a cinematic griot, a peripatetic bard who "recites" the story of a people through provocative imagery. Against this backdrop, Stoller considers Rouch's writings on Songhay history, myth, magic and possession, migration, and social change. By analyzing in depth some of Rouch's most important films and assessing Rouch's ethnography in terms of his own expertise in Songhay culture, Stoller demonstrates the inner connection between these two modes of representation. Stoller, who has done more fieldwork among the Songhay than anyone other than Rouch himself, here gives the first full account of Rouch the griot, whose own story scintillates with important implications for anthropology, ethnography, African studies, and film.

Author : Thomas Jacob
Publisher : Thomas Jacob
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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AFRICAN WISDOM: Griot's Wisdom: Stories for Meaning by Thomas Jacob Pdf

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 : Linda Goss,Marian E. Barnes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780671671686

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Talk That Talk by Linda Goss,Marian E. Barnes Pdf

Contains almost 100 stories by famous yarn-spinners from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean, ranging from ghost stories to ghetto adventures.

Author : Kermit Ernest Campbell
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 081432925X

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Gettin' Our Groove on by Kermit Ernest Campbell Pdf

A critical work on the African American vernacular tradition and its expression in contemporary Hip hop.

Author : Adam Joel Banks
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809386192

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Digital Griots by Adam Joel Banks Pdf

Presenting the DJ as an example of the digital griot--a high-tech storyteller--this book shows how African American storytelling traditions and their digital manifestations can help scholars and teachers shape composition studies, 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.

Author : Shane Borrowman,Marcia Kmetz,Robert L. Lively
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443822008

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Rhetoric in the Rest of the West by Shane Borrowman,Marcia Kmetz,Robert L. Lively Pdf

While the study of the history of rhetoric has expanded to include an ever-growing range of rhetorical traditions, lesser-known figures, and under- and un-studied texts, it has continued to exist in the hermetically sealed binary of West and Rest. Rhetorical scholars have begun uncovering the many marginalized rhetorical traditions silenced by the homogenous nature of our histories themselves, reading and writing new histories of the rhetorical tradition through frames from gender to geography. Despite these substantial challenges to the traditionally received history of rhetoric, many voices are still silenced and many spaces are still excluded—voices speaking within the spaces of the less-than-monolithic West itself. This silencing and excluding continues, perhaps, because of assumptions that no texts exist from these marginalized voices or that substantial rhetorical activity was not conducted in these marginalized spaces—regardless of already extant evidence of rhetorical activity as diverse as rural civic ethos in Classical Greece and Etruscan influences on Roman rhetoric or long-standing passive knowledge of scholarly activity in Medieval Andalusia and Ireland. Rhetoric in the Rest of the West attempts to expand the conversation in those gaps in the history of rhetoric by examining the traditions that lost the cultural competition and have been shrouded in the shadow of the rhetorical tradition.

Author : David C. Conrad,Barbara E. Frank
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253112648

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Status and Identity in West Africa by David C. Conrad,Barbara E. Frank Pdf

"... the contributors to Status and Identity in West Africa have swept away the dust that has obscured the study of the societies of western Sudan and have made it possible to pursue the salutory work of decolonizing the history and sociology of these regions."Â -- American Ethnologist "This discussion is among the most significant contributions that African studies can make to the contemporary global dialogue on multicultural issues." -- Choice "It is 'must' reading for anyone who works in African literature today." -- Research in African Literatures "…an indispensable guide to understanding the producers of art in the Mande world, including the art of the spoken word. The writing and arguments are clear and jargon-free…it will provide a rich harvest of detailed original research…" -- African Arts "[This] book... is the most impressive effort to look at these groups in comparative perspective. The essays fit together nicely to challenge notions that came out of colonial scholarship." -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History "... the volume makes a significant contribution to the social history and ongoing processes of cultural pluralism in West Africa." -- Journal of Religion in Africa The nyamakalaw -- blacksmiths, potters, leather-workers, bards, and other artists and specialists among the Mande-speaking peoples of West Africa -- play powerful roles in Mande society. This book presents the first full portrait of one of Africa's most powerful and least understood social groups.

Author : Edna Smith Edet
Publisher : Publishing Center for Cultural Resources
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015007913323

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The Griot Sings by Edna Smith Edet Pdf

A collection of music and songs from various parts of Africa.

Author : Gordon Innes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135753009

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Sunjata by Gordon Innes Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.