The African Presence And Influence On The Cultures Of The Americas
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Author | : Brenda M. Greene |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443822426 |
The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas, an interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars and writers whose disciplines include but are not limited to literature, languages, linguistics, history, sociology and psychology, reflects the complexity and diversity of the historical and cultural legacy of the African diasporic reality and provides a critical perspective for examining the persistence of African cultural traditions in the Americas. These writers and scholars explore the ways in which people connected by moments in history and the common legacies of racism, classism, colonialism and imperialism, have used literature, music, dance, religion and cultural rites and rituals to survive and resist. The poetry and prose of Afro-Cuban icon, Nicolás Guillén and Afro-American literary legend, Gwendolyn Brooks provide a context for exploring these themes. Guillén and Brooks symbolize the triumph of the human spirit and the “Africanisms” present amongst people who share a common legacy originating in Africa. Building on the themes in the work of these poets, the scholars and writers in The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas examine the nature, persistence and impact of these themes in literature, language, music, dance and religion. The scholarship generated in this collection has implications for the ways in which we read, study and teach cultural studies, literature, history, language, African American Studies, Caribbean Studies and Africana Studies.
Author | : Sheila S. Walker |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780742501652 |
This multidisciplinary volume highlights the African presence throughout the Americas, and African and African Diasporan contributions to the material and cultural life of all of the Americas, and of all Americans. It includes articles from leading scholars and from cultural leaders from both well-known and little-known African Diasporan communities. Privileging African Diasporan voices, it offers new perspectives, data, and interpretations that challenge prevailing understandings of the Americas. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author | : Ivan Van Sertima |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2003-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"The African presence in ancient America"--Jacket subtitle.
Author | : Diane Pecknold |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2013-07-10 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0822351633 |
Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians have helped to shape the styles of many of the most important performers in the country canon. The partnership between Lesley Riddle and A. P. Carter produced much of the Carter Family's repertoire; the street musician Tee Tot Payne taught a young Hank Williams Sr.; the guitar playing of Arnold Schultz influenced western Kentuckians, including Bill Monroe and Ike Everly. Yet attention to how these and other African Americans enriched the music played by whites has obscured the achievements of black country-music performers and the enjoyment of black listeners. The contributors to Hidden in the Mix examine how country music became "white," how that fictive racialization has been maintained, and how African American artists and fans have used country music to elaborate their own identities. They investigate topics as diverse as the role of race in shaping old-time record catalogues, the transracial West of the hick-hopper Cowboy Troy, and the place of U.S. country music in postcolonial debates about race and resistance. Revealing how music mediates both the ideology and the lived experience of race, Hidden in the Mix challenges the status of country music as "the white man’s blues." Contributors. Michael Awkward, Erika Brady, Barbara Ching, Adam Gussow, Patrick Huber, Charles Hughes, Jeffrey A. Keith, Kip Lornell, Diane Pecknold, David Sanjek, Tony Thomas, Jerry Wever
Author | : Jack D. Forbes |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1993-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780252063213 |
Jack D. Forbes's monumental Africans and Native Americans has become a canonical text in the study of relations between the two groups. Forbes explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of color, analyzing the development of color classification systems and the specific evolution of key terms such as black, mulatto, and mestizo--terms that no longer carry their original meanings. Forbes also presents strong evidence that Native American and African contacts began in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.
Author | : Joseph E. Holloway |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2005-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253217493 |
A revised and expanded edition of a groundbreaking text.
Author | : Jacob U. Gordon |
Publisher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : 9781592210787 |
Accepting the basic premise that Africa is the ancestral homeland of black Americans raises questions as to how much, if any, of African cultural heritage remains within that community. Some claim that the severity of the plantation system and the acculturation process of the slaves could not have left any Africanism in the New World, while others argue that African cultural heritage can still be seen today in many aspects of American life and thought. This volume revisits the debate, examining the ways in which this alleged cultural heritage manifests itself.
Author | : Brenda D. Gottschild |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1996-05-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : |
This ground-breaking work brings dance into current discussions of the African presence in American culture. Dixon Gottschild argues that the Africanist aesthetic has been invisibilized by the pervasive force of racism. This book provides evidence to correct and balance the record, investigating the Africanist presence as a conditioning factor in shaping American performance, onstage and in everyday life. She examines the Africanist presence in American dance forms particularly in George Balanchine's Americanized style of ballet, (post)modern dance, and blackface minstrelsy. Hip hop culture and rap are related to contemporary performance, showing how a disenfranchised culture affects the culture in power.
Author | : Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814738184 |
12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States. The rest-over ten and a half million-were taken to the Caribbean and Latin America. This astonishing fact changes our entire picture of the history of slavery in the Western hemisphere, and of its lasting cultural impact. These millions of Africans created new and vibrant cultures, magnificently compelling syntheses of various African, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish influences. Despite their great numbers, the cultural and social worlds that they created remain largely unknown to most Americans, except for certain popular, cross-over musical forms. So Henry Louis Gates, Jr. set out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now, and how the countries of their acknowledge-or deny-their African past; how the fact of race and African ancestry play themselves out in the multicultural worlds of the Caribbean and Latin America. Starting with the slave experience and extending to the present, Gates unveils the history of the African presence in six Latin American countries-Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru-through art, music, cuisine, dance, politics, and religion, but also the very palpable presence of anti-black racism that has sometimes sought to keep the black cultural presence from view.
Author | : Brian D. Joyner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
"Summarizes highlights of the scholarship presented at the conference, 'Places of cultural memory: African reflections on the American landscape, ' ... held May 9-12 in Atlanta, Georgia. It ... illustrates ways in which this scholarship can be applied"--Page v.