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Author : Banning Eyre
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566397599
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Griot Time written by Banning Eyre and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative of life among the griot musicians of Mali. Born into families where music and the tradition of griot story-telling are heritages and privileges, the musicians live their lives at the intersection of ancient traditions and the modern entertainment industry.

Author : Betty K. Staley
Publisher : Rudolf Steiner College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945803270
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hear the Voice of the Griot! written by Betty K. Staley and published by Rudolf Steiner College Press. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeremy Pelt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736663608
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Griot written by Jeremy Pelt and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of musician-to-musician interviews centered around Black social issues in Jazz.

Author : Barbara E. Frank
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253058988
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Griot Potters of the Folona written by Barbara E. Frank and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Griot Potters of the Folona reconstructs the past of a particular group of West African women potters using evidence found in their artistry and techniques. The potters of the Folona region of southeastern Mali serve a diverse clientele and firing thousands of pots weekly during the height of the dry season. Although they identify themselves as Mande, the unique styles and types of objects the Folona women make, and more importantly, the way they form and fire them, are fundamentally different from Mande potters to the north and west. Through a brilliant comparative analysis of pottery production methods across the region, especially how the pots are formed and the way the techniques are taught by mothers to daughters, Barbara Frank concludes that the mothers of the potters of the Folona very likely came from the south and east, marrying Mande griots (West African leatherworkers who are better known as storytellers or musicians), as they made their way south in search of clientele as early as the 14th or 15th century CE. While the women may have nominally given up their mothers' identities through marriage, over the generations the potters preserved their maternal heritage through their technological style, passing this knowledge on to their daughters, and thus transforming the very nature of what it means to be a Mande griot. This is a story of resilience and the continuity of cultural heritage in the hands of women.

Author : Thomas Albert Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780253334589
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Griots and Griottes written by Thomas Albert Hale and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive illustrated portrait of griots and griottes including extensive reference materials.

Author : Angela Zusman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988763104
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Griots of Oakland written by Angela Zusman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like being a young African American man? The media repeats the same stereotypes again and again, yet the reality is much more diverse. This eye-opening and beautifully presented book shares the voices and images of a group of young black men in Oakland, interviewed by their peers in a groundbreaking oral history project. The youth share their wisdom on a range of questions, organized by theme and accompanied by portrait photography and materials for further reflection. For students, educators, policy makers, and those who want to gain a better understanding of modern African American culture.

Author : Frieda Ekotto
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684480280
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Whisper Too Much and Portrait of a Young Artiste from Bona Mbella written by Frieda Ekotto and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't Whisper Too Much and Bona Mbella present love stories between African women in a positive light. In presenting the emotional and romantic lives of gay African women, Ekotto addresses how female sexuality is often marked by violence, and yet is also a place for emotional connection, pleasure and agency.

Author : Adam J. Banks
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809390620
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Griots written by Adam J. Banks and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholar Adam J. Banks offers a mixtape of African American digital rhetoric in his innovative study Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age. Presenting the DJ as a quintessential example of the digital griot-high-tech storyteller-this book shows how African American storytelling traditions and their digital manifestations can help scholars and teachers shape composition studies, thoroughly linking oral, print, and digital production in ways that centralize African American discursive practices as part of a multicultural set of ideas and pedagogical commitments. DJs are models of rhetorical excellence; canon makers; time binders who link past, present, and future in the groove and mix; and intellectuals continuously interpreting the history and current realities of their communities in real time. Banks uses the DJ's practices of the mix, remix, and mixtape as tropes for reimagining writing instruction and the study of rhetoric. He combines many of the debates and tensions that mark black rhetorical traditions and points to ways for scholars and students to embrace those tensions rather than minimize them. This commitment to both honoring traditions and embracing futuristic visions makes this text unique, as do the sites of study included in the examination: mixtape culture, black theology as an activist movement, everyday narratives, and discussions of community engagement. Banks makes explicit these connections, rarely found in African American rhetoric scholarship, to illustrate how competing ideologies, vernacular and academic writing, sacred and secular texts, and oral, print, and digital literacies all must be brought together in the study of African American rhetoric and in the teaching of culturally relevant writing. A remarkable addition to the study of African American rhetorical theory and composition studies, Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age will compel scholars and students alike to think about what they know of African American rhetoric in fresh and useful ways.

Author : Ron Ramdin
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781425184063
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Griot's Tale written by Ron Ramdin and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Griot's Tale will move those who read it; an absorbing, rare literary work in which words "say more than it speaks and means more than it utters."

Author : Tom Dent
Publisher : University of New Orleans Press
ISBN 13 : 9781608011490
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Orleans Griot written by Tom Dent and published by University of New Orleans Press. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mid-twentieth century African American writer and cultural activist, Tom Dent worked tirelessly to help cultivate the Black Arts Movement, mentoring numerous other artists and writers. Taken from his papers held at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, this vital collection brings together Dent's fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and drama, including many previously unpublished works. With introductions by Kalamu ya Salaam, New Orleans Griot: A Tom Dent Reader showcases the remarkable life and writing of Tom Dent, from his early days in New York to working with the Free Southern Theatre in Mississippi to his astute observations of New Orleans and the black Mardi Gras Indians.