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Master Drummers ~ The Gods Are Awake!

“Strummin’ my pain with his fingers, singin’ my life with his words… Killin’ me softly with his song…” (Roberta Flack). In Africa it is said that each person has a rhythm to which they alone dance. Women… Read More

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Posted on February 14, 2013 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Hero's Journey, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pop Music

Congo Square, funk, Grammy Award, hero's journey, hip-hop, jazz, Jazz Age, master drummer, Motown, rhythm-and-blues, soul, talking drum motif, ubuntu

“The Language You Cry In” …oral-aesthetic musings

“Everybody come… Everyone come together… / The grave is restless. The grave is not yet at peace…” (translation) Dr. Lorenzo Dow Turner, a pioneering African-American linguist, recognized the origin of these lines in a song he recorded in the… Read More

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Posted on March 18, 2012 by malaika mutere

African Culture, Afrocentricity, Hero's Journey, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition

African-American music, blues, call-response motif, field hollers, funeral songs, gullah, Lorenzo Turner, Maafa, masquerade motif, matriarchal aesthetics, Mende, middle passage, mojo motif, nelson george, ngugi wa thiong'o, north-south conversations, Oral Aesthetics, rhythm-and-blues, talking drum motif, the language you cry in, ubuntu motif

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Master Drummers ~ The Gods Are Awake!

“The Language You Cry In” …oral-aesthetic musings

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