Daniel,Yvonne (Author) and Moses,Lennard V. (Author)
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International (UMI) Ann Arbor, MI
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
17(2) : 147
Notes:
[Unedited] This essay compares the main Caribbean contredanse-derived dance forms as it examines the reasons for their longevity and pervasiveness from the 18th c. forward. It reconciles performers’ evaluations with those of specialized analysts and dissects the perplexing phenomenon of European dance forms performed by African descendents even after slavery, independence, and national citizenship. Through a critical analysis of the dancing body as a reservoir of cultural values, the essay reveals consistent historical and contemporary dance practices over centuries despite significant social change.; [Unedited] The African derived music of the Caribbean in the steel band and its emergence in the North American school steel band program continues to expand the World Music experience in music education. The cultural and pedagogical understanding in the rhythm, strumming, and movement in this music culture is an essential educational component for students and teachers in the North American schools. The study of rhythm as communication, inspiration, and creation of Afro-Caribbean music helps to inform the performance practice of the steel band rhythm section or 'engine room', improve their strumming and movement, and invite students and teachers to think and rethink their approach to the overall steel band music education.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
An exploration of the relationship between music and social and political consciousness on the southern Caribbean island of Trinidad, which is known for its vibrant musical traditions, all of which reflect the island’s ethnic diversity.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
[Unedited] The survival of African cultural traditions in the New World has long been a subject of academic study and controversy, particularly traditions of dance, music, and song. Yet the dance culture of blacks in London, where a growing black community carried on the newly creolized dance traditions of their Caribbean ancestors, has been largely neglected. This study begins by examining the importance of dance in African culture and analyzing how African dance took root in the Caribbean, even as slaves learned and adapted European dance forms. It then looks at how these dance traditions were transplanted and transformed once again, this time in mid–18th-c. London. Finally it analyzes how the London black community used the quadrille and other dances to establish a unified self-identity, to reinforce their group dynamic, and to critique the oppressive white society in which they found themselves.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
116 p, Very few references to the participation of black women in Brazilian classical music throughout history. Sergio Bittencourt-Sampaio analyzes the career of two black performers rare success in this area - Joaquina Maria da Conceição Lapa (Lapinha) and Camila Maria da Conceição. These two precursors, distanced by exactly one century were women of remarkable determination and achieved wide recognition through talent, amid a slave and patriarchal society.
Olsen,Dale A. (Editor) and Sheehy,Daniel E. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
New York: Routledge
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Articles originally published in: The Garland encyclopedia of world music. Vol. 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. 1998., 567 p + 2 sound discs, A collection of articles on the musics of Latin America, covering such regions and cultures as Warao, Q'ero, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Cuba, Dominican republic and many others.
Talmon-Chvaicer,Maya (Author) and Sobel,Mechal, (Foreword)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
Austin: University of Texas Austin, TX, USA
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
[Unedited] An in-depth study and cultural history of the development and meaning of capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, which has become popular all over the world. First brought to Brazil by African slaves and first documented in the late 18th c., capoeira has undergone many transformations as it has diffused throughout Brazilian society and beyond, taking on a multiplicity of meanings for those who participate in it and for the societies in which it is practiced. Three major cultures inspired capoeira—the Congolese (the historic area known today as Congo-Angola), the Yoruban, and the Catholic Portuguese cultures. The evolution of capoeira is traced through successive historical eras with a dual perspective, depicting capoeira as it was experienced, observed, and understood by both Europeans and Africans, as well as by their descendants. This dual perspective uncovers many covert aspects of capoeira that have been repressed by the dominant Brazilian culture. This study reclaims the African origins and meanings of capoeira, while also acknowledging the many ways in which Catholic-Christian culture has contributed to it.
