Summer Session 2005 at DIAE

Summer Session for Teachers, 2005

African and African-American Culture Links; Central and South American Links cross-listed with African and African American; Central and South American Links, Latin Storytelling; etc.

African and African-American Culture

General Resources

Librarian's Index to the Internet
Find websites on African culture that have been evaluated by professional librarians at the Librarian's Index to the Internet:
http://lii.org/
Use search terms such as African Masks, or African tribes or names of specific African countries.

Gateway to Educational Materials
http://thegateway.org/

High quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet, found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. GEM is sponsored by the U. S. Department of Education.

Marco Polo Search
http://www.marcopolosearch.org/mpsearch/basic_search.asp

The MarcoPolo Search Engine provides access to all of the educational resources created by the MarcoPolo Partners plus Partner reviewed materials.

Texas Social Studies Tool | Tool Kits: Grades 9 - 12 | Curriculum... http://www.tea.state.tx.us/ssc/ubd.html downloads of Grant and Wiggins, Understanding by Design as curriculum assessment model for Social Studies Reports

Websites for African Art

Art and Life In Africa http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/index.html a rich resources from The University of Iowa, The School of Art and Art History articles on Mossi Masks (Burkina Faso) by Christopher Roy, includes images of the people and the masks from 1970 to 2004 see http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/Burkina_mask_catalogue/index4.htm

Bamana Masks The collection of the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) http://www.nmafa.si.edu/pubaccess/index.htm Search for (classification masks), Region(West Africa), Country (Mali) and (ethnic group) Bamana you’ll see the Chi Wara kun mask of the Bamana people.

The National Museum of African Art
Find resources at the Smithsonian’s web site celebrating the rich visual traditions of African sculptures, masks, textiles, furniture, pottery, paintings and much more. Educational programs offer innovative approaches to engage visitors with African art.

African Art Aesthetics and Meaning
an electronic catalogue with references to the Aesthetics as listed in Susan M. Vogel, African Aesthetics, New York: Center for African Art, 1986. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html

http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/Burkina_mask_catalogue/index4.htm

Smithsonian Natural History Web: African Voices
The Web site African Voices reflects a permanent exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, examines the diversity, dynamism, and global influence of Africa's peoples and cultures over time in the realms of family, work, community, and the natural environment. http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/

Introductions to African Music
An excellent introduction to African music can be found at African Australian Website. See African History and Overview at http://www.acslink.aone.net.au/christo/histmain.htm

Central and South American Links, cross-listed with African and African American

Web sites for Caribbean Dance and Music
Afro-Cuban and Afro Brazilian Music and Dance
Latin Music: Cuban, Brazilian Music and Dance, Afro-Latin Music Links

AfroCubanWeb http://www.afrocubaweb.com/music.html has links to artists, including folkloric/religious genres: (Cuban-Haitian, Cuban-Kongo/Bantu, and Cuban-Yoruba.) and web resources. Useful connections include a site dedicated to clave rhythm at http://pertout.customer.netspace.net.au/lclaveac.htm, and an Afro-Cuban link http://members.aol.com/al31/cuba_music.html.

Cuban Music http://www.mamborama.com/cuba_music.html
examines the myriad styles and genres throughout the long history of Cuban music, noting that while influences from Africa and Spain were predominant, Cuban music has also been shaped by the music of Europe, Latin-America and American pop music and jazz.

Batá drums http://www.lafi.org/magazine/articles/batadrums.html,
a site presented by the Latin American Folk Institute, a center to promote, study and develop Latin American arts and culture, describes Batá drums, instruments dating back hundreds of years that have traveled across continents preserving the rhythms of African sacred music.

http://www.lafi.org/magazine/articles/african.html
examines the influences of Cuban music from Spain and Africa, from the colonizers and from the slaves. The Africans contributed a variety of cultures from the multiple tribes, nations, religions, and languages

http://www.lafi.org/magazine/articles/thesongs.html
provides a more tightly focused examination of a particular musical tradition: Songs to the Gods of Santeria; “For the Yoruba, in what today is Nigeria, the gods were manifested in natural objects and connected to natural forces such as water, fire, and thunder. The gods had supernatural powers, but were also very human in their frailties as well as virtues. They could be angry, generous, jealous, mischievous, bold, lustful, caring, or deceitful. They could be called upon for assistance, and invoked at ceremonies where they took possession of individual men and women among the celebrants.”

Cabildo http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/history.htm
presents a history of Cuban music and describes various musical styles and how many of them developed in the climate of a mixed-race and culturally diverse environment; “over one hundred different African ethnic groups in 19th century Cuba, and fourteen distinct ‘nations’ preserved their identity in the mutual aid associations and social clubs known as ‘cabildo.’”

Capoeira http://www.capoeira.htmlplanet.com/capoeira_hist.htm
covers material explaining capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian dance-like martial art form. A closely related site, http://pertout.customer.netspace.net.au/lberimbau.htm, describes the berimbau, which is the primary instrument played in capoeira music.

www.raceandhistory.com/Taino/ Race and History:
a web site that looks at the specific designations of natives of the islands including the Taíno, Arawaks and Caribs and their interface with the Spanish conquerors.

http://www.websteruniv.edu/~corbetre/haiti/voodoo/overview.htm
Introduction to Voodoo in Haiti provides information on Haitian loas which relate to the West African Orishas and Maya Deren's work from THE DIVINE HORSEMAN.

Orisha Wemba Means Magic.
Descriptions of the orishas in the Lucumi pantheon, with pages devoted to the warriors, Obatala, Yemaya, Ochun, Shango and Babalu-aye. www.wemba-music.org/orisha.htm -7k - A site created by dancers, poets storytellers, who live in upstate New York.

Africaresource.com: Data Resources - Orisha Websites
Educational portal on Africa includes e journals, online scholars, essays, publication, conferences, art, etc. www.africaresource.com/datab/orisha.htm - 16k Africa Resource brings together databases, streams of research analysis, and cultural productions that are largely separated from each other. In so doing, it promotes socioeconomic evaluations, and cultural and political interpretations with substantial African content. NKIRU NZEGWU, has taught for ten years at State University of New York at Binghamton.

African Based Religions
http://sparta.rice.edu/~maryc/AfroCuban.html

Other general references

Africa-Related Music Dance and Cultural Resources

http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/index.html

http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/%7Eladzekpo/AfricaBookmarks.html
A Selected List of Books, Recordings, and Videos of interest to students of African and African-Diaspora Music, Culture, and Religion

African Studies Center http://www.africa.upenn.edu/
is a resource with links to useful things. Resources links to country pages to K-12 Resources.

African Visual Arts

Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B36C7412C-EEF8-11D5-9414-00902786BF44%7D

Central and South American Links, Latin Storytelling

Latin Stories: Puerto Rico, Cuba, etc.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/vidal/index.htm
For a brief history of Puerto Rico use the Smithsonian Institution’s link to the National Museum of American History’s, A Collector's Vision of Puerto Rico.

http://edsitement.neh.gov/monthly_feature.asp?id=31
features documents of early settlers of the new world. This site has links that connect to primary sources, such as the 1542 Relation, written by Alvar NúÑez Cabeza de Vaca of his journey in the New World. See http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/cabeza.htm.

http://info.lanic.utexas.edu/.
This site offers lessons, contextual information and bibliographies specifically for Latin American studies.

http://www.elboricua.com/
is an educational site dedicated to Puerto Rico's culture and history. Information is provided about the Taíno, the original inhabitants of Puerto Rico, and African cultural influences in national symbols, songs, holidays, poets, and food. The text cites three references: Taínos, The People Who Welcomed Columbus by Francine Jacobs; Taíno, Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean, published by El Museo del Barrio; The Taínos, Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus by Irvin Rouse. This is a thorough description of everyday life complete with a glossary of Taíno words.

http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/2/93.02.12.x.html
offers folktales, lesson plans and bibliography.

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