Summer Session for Teachers, 2006
General Resources
Librarian's
Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/search?m=p&query=africa+culture&
Search=SEARCH+LII.ORG&searchtype=keywords
Find websites on African culture that have been evaluated by professional librarians at the Librarian's Index to the Internet.
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
Central and South American Links, cross-listed with African and African American
Web sites - Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian Music and Dance
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.htmpresents 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.
OrishaWemba 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
Tania Isaac Dance
intro to tania isaac dance Roots of Caribbean Dance with Tania Isaac Dance Company is part of the Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour www.isaacdanceprojects.org/intro_tid.htm
Tania Isaac Dance Projects Debuts in Funky Glory http://www.danceinsider.com/f2004/f0419_2.html dance review 'Home' Run
Caribbean Crusader Tania Isaac, the Painted Bride's first resident artist, debuts her own company and finds herself perfectly at home. http://citypaper.net/articles/2004-04-15/art.shtml
Tania Isaac Hyman is a dancer and choreographer from St Lucia, West Indies. http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millenium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=ISAACHYMAN
Haitian Flag Paintings
Haitian Voodoo 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.
Calling on the Gods https://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfrb/haitianvodou.htm, The Embodied Aesthetic of Haitian Vodou, Eastern Illinois University, Tarble Arts Center exhibition, 1998
Divine Transpositions http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v3i12/vodou.htm Recent Scholarship on Vodou and Santeria Religious art by Deborah Wyrick, North Carolina State University
‘Saluting
Vodou Spirits: Haitian Flags from the Fowler Collection’ Opens at the UCLA
Fowler Museum of Cultural History Aug. 8 UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History article by Stacey Ravel Abarbanel,
http://www.fowler.ucla.edu/
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
Toussaint L'Ouverture Haitian revolution 1791: Slaves revolt in Haiti against the French rulers and slaveowners. Toussaint L'Ouverture, a former slave, leads them consistently to victory but is betrayed and captured in 1802. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h326.html
Spirituals with Three Mo’ Sopranos
Negro Spirituals http://www.negrospirituals.com/ This site is devoted to traditional African American spirituals, early Gospel songs and a history of the music. This site is organized by Spiritual Workshop, Paris, specializing in negro-spirituals.
African American Music: Spirituals and Gospel Music http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/reference/styles/spirituals.html Silver Burdett, Making Music. Describes the roots and the styles of Spirituals.
The National Endowment for Humanities offers a lesson plan which introduces students to the role that spirituals have played in history at edsitement you will find as a variety of links to other websites and references. ...http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=318
Spirituals an Expression of Life http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa092300a.htm shares information on relevant topics including Black History, the slave trade, slave narratives and spirituals, including a letter by Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson. http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/blbanneker_letter.htm
African American Religion Part 2: From the Civil War to the Great Migration, 1865-1920 www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/aarcwgm.htm
Sweet Chariot: The Story of the Spirituals http://ctl.du.edu/spirituals/History/transition.cfm A multidisciplinary online curriculum by The Spirituals Project at the University of Denver was developed to preserve and present information on the cultural importance of African American Spirituals.
Portraits of a People, Delaware Art Museum
Portraits of a People: Letters and Narratives of African Americans can be found on line at http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/index.html "North American Slave Narratives" collects books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom includes Richard Allen, 1760-1831, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth.
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/allen/summary.html Richard Allen, 1760-1831. The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen
Narratives of Sojourner Truth http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/truth50/menu.html
Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/wheatley/menu.html
Afro-American Benjamin Banneker http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/blbanneker_letter.htm cited above shares information on relevant topics including a letter by Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson. http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/blbanneker_letter.htm
African American World Other information about African American history is available at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/printable_pages/timeline_print.html
Back of the Big House: The Cultural Landscape of the Plantation http://www.gwu.edu/%7Efolklife/bighouse/index.html the exhibit consisted of images of plantation buildings from the Library of Congress collections matched with the testimonies of former slaves recorded during the 1930s.
Tania Isaac Dance
Review-- Isaac shows herself to be a multitalented artist whose work both explores and expands the boundaries of contemporary Dance Theater. -J. Cooper Robb, Philadelphia Weekly
Roots of Caribbean Dance with Tania Isaac Dance Company is part of the Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour www.isaacdanceprojects.org/intro_tid.htm
Caribbean Crusader: Tania Isaac, the Painted Bride's first resident artist, debuts her own company and finds herself perfectly at home. http://citypaper.net/articles/2004-04-15/art.shtml
Tania Isaac Dance Projects Debuts in Funky Glory from The Dance Insider dance review of 'Home' Run http://www.danceinsider.com/f2004/f0419_2.html
Tania Isaac Hyman is a dancer and choreographer from St Lucia, West Indies. http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millenium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=ISAACHYMAN
Spoken Word: Trapeta Mayson and the Twin Poets
Trapeta Mayson winner of the PEW Arts Fellowship 2002, The grants provide financial support directly to the artists so that they may have the opportunity to dedicate themselves to creative pursuits exclusively. http://www.pewarts.org/2002/mayson/main.html
Trapeta Mayson Winner of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship and several literary awards. http://pacouncilonthearts.org/catalog2000/Mayson.html
Trapeta Masyon "Just
a Simple Place People Can Read Their Work."
Art
Sanctuary Resident Artist Trapeta B. Mayson Hosts Open Poetry in
Germantown by Victor Thompson http://www.philadelphiawriters.com/articles/06_2004/trapeta.htm
Official Web Site of the Twin Poets www.twinpoets.com/
Albert Mills and Nnamdi Chukwvocha are the Twin Poets — twin brothers from planet poetry. As members of the ’99 Philadelphia National Poetry Slam Team and http://citypaper.net/articles/120601/ae.picka.shtml
Delaware Online: Hope. Faith. Solutions.
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2005/02/23hopefaithsoluti_1.html
The twins tour nationally and have appeared on HBO's "Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam" and at other high-profile venues. But they view their poetry more as a by product of their social work and activism in Riverside.
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