Located in one of the oldest sections of Manhattan, at the intersection of Duane and Elk Streets, New York’s African Burial Ground has emerged from obscurity to become one of the city’s most prominent historic sites. Although today only a small portion of the site is visible, the African Burial Ground has established itself as a public landscape of vast proportions, dramatically changing our understanding of life in colonial New York and providing a point of origin for members of New York’s diasporic African-American community. Set beyond New York City’s early boundaries, the African Burial Ground began as part of New York’s Commons or publicly held land. The Commons were established in 1653, the same year that the Dutch government granted
The tumbao (“toom-bow”; also called marcha) is a basic Afro-Cuban rhythm played on conga. The conga (also called tumbadora), with ancestry from Africa, first appeared in bands in the 1930’s-1940’s. A slightly simplified tumbao rhythm first appears in Line 1, measure 13. Line 1 in this piece represents the bongos (particularly the martillo sections) and the highest pitched conga (quinto).
In May of 1991, a three hundred year silence was shattered with the discovery of the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan. Widely acknowledged as one of the most significant American archeological finds of the twentieth century. Prior to the 1991 discovery, plans to erect a 34-story, $276-million federal building required that a cultural resource survey, including archeological field-testing, be completed. Under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, such research is required on any project using public funds that may have the potential to impact historic resources. During the last days of the excavation, the archaeological team discovered a missing chapter of New York history¿the
Watching the video as a whole give me a better understanding as to what changes was made to the Latin Music. From the amount of members and what they played to the little kids that lookup to
Who is Joseph Sado ? Joe as most call him, is a bigger built guy who most say is hard to approach. He is actually really sweet and caring like a big marshmallow you might say. He just turned thirty, and is working as a music producer, he helps his friends band Hi grade productions, make music videos and is in charge of the soundboard and recording of their songs. He lives in Kula with his mother, he has a recording studio in the downstairs portion of their house.
African-Brazilian religions are represented, among other experiences, chiefly by Candomblé and Umbanda. They are characterized by spirit possession - the Orishas, or ancestors - who take possession of the body of a person, the medium, and meet the demands of subjects who seek their guidance. They are derived from the knowledge of African religious beliefs that came to Brazil with the black diaspora, and that brought a great amount of knowledge about how to treat disease and preserve health. This knowledge associate a comprehensive response to a series of somatic, psychological, social, spiritual and existential dissatisfactions, offering people explanations about the disease events generating pain and suffering. In this context, the aim of
Some of these instruments included shakers or markas, gongs-------. I wasn’t a fan of the songs that they played because there was so much going on at one time. Some instruments would play and go in and out but when they all played at once I liked that the best. The first song they played was carribean like and very upbeat.
During the procession, the deafening sounds of drums, flutes, and cymbals plays forcefully during the
The introduction of the piece is the same as that of “The Raiders March”, but with strings playing in the background. The A melody begins with the trumpet as the strings fade out (0:07). The first minute and a half of the song is played the same as that of “The Raiders March”, though due to differing sound equalization, some parts stick out more or less than they do in the original. For example, in the third repetition of the A melody, one can more clearly hear the xylophone accompanying the melody here than in “The Raiders March”. The piece begins to differ more significantly after the break following the third repetition of the A melody when the piece modulates down a half step instead of up like in the original (1:37).
Throughout our History on Earth. We have built Many different civilizations. Africa is one of them , Africa has seen the rise and fall of many of its empires. The oldest and Largest of the empire being Egypt, though they gave us the pyramids and Pharaohs , They weren 't the only ones to develop the culture of africa as we see it proven today. African culture Is very diverse, to generalise it would cause too much confusion.
Although The Funeral Procession gained popularity from the 1980’s television program, The Cosby Show, a reprint of the painting hung in my Grandma Gracie’s house in Wellston, Oklahoma. My grandmother was born in 1902 and passed away at the young age of 96. When I was a child, she often told us stories of how her family walked to church, school, and down to the pond for baptisms on Sunday’s. As a child, I gazed at the print and imaged my grandmother as one of the characters in the painting.
All of the sounds and music come together to show the women doing their part in the war-time effort and they are both proud and happy about
There is always a devil and angel on your shoulders mentally playing tug of war with your mind, swaying you between bad and good, and it blinds you to logical thinking. This usually happens during times of crisis or when things go awry, but trying to do the right thing will often make you do the worst possible thing, causing regret later on. In the novel, The Things They Carried, the soldiers during the Vietnam War would carry many items with them in war in a backpack, but also many would carry emotional burdens, as we see with character Tim O’Brien. He struggles with internal chaos and turmoil after fleeing the draft, killing a man in war, and lying to his daughter after those events. Showing how sometimes, war will bring out an unfamiliar duality that we must struggle with in order to choose what is right or wrong.
The main song they would sing together was known by the name ‘We shall overcome’ and this became a unique unofficial anthem showing of the of African American’s struggle through the inequality of civil rights. Music was that one thing that the African American’s could turn to for help in strengthening and motivation to unite as an African nation in American and abolish the inequality and segregation in the country. Many musicians and music groups would perform at concerts to raise money towards the civil rights organizations formed to help spread the word for
The song “Caravan” by Duke Ellington performed by Ella Fitzgerald in this rendition has the lyrics written by Irving Mills. This classic song was released in 1937 but Fitzgerald didn’t complete her rendition until nearly 20 years later in 1957 accompanied by Ellington’s Orchestra in her Duke Ellington songbook album. This is a jazz piece of music with whimsical lyrics and a feeling that invokes an exotic atmosphere. On Ella’s rendition, she adds a big element of a swing sound into the piece and even though she does not need the big orchestra she still knows how to use it. Duke Ellington was born in Washington, D.C on April 29, 1899 to his two musically inclined parents.
