CMNS 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-1: Multilinear Map, African-American Music, Double Entendre
17 Jan 2017
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The translated african cultural and musical past (portia k. maultsby)3-19. These areas were home to many different ethnic and linguistic groups, each having its own language, cultural, and musical traditions. Intentionally separated from others of their own ethnic group, the collective experience of africans as slaves in the. United states forged the merger of the separate and distinct cultural identities that had defined slaves prior to their capture and transport to the new world. Music performances generally are organized as social events where community members become active participants. They join in by singing, dancing, clapping hands, stomping feet, shaking rattles, and so forth, thereby eliminating distinctions between performers and audience. Such occasions, according to ghanaian ethnomusicologist j. h. Provide at once an opportunity for sharing in creative experience, for participating in music as a form of community experience, and for using music as an avenue for the expression of group sentiments.
