Explain in detail how elements of early Caribbean music, hand drumming and lavways (call and response chant to accompany stick-fighting), carried over to the calypso genre as well as to the steel bands. Explain in detail the effects of colonization and/or power differentials (slavery/ indentured servitude) on the steel band tradition (and its precursors). Explain […]
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What is most striking-surprising about these accounts-Explain your answer.
Assignment instructions HIS325a: Source of Reading: Robin D. G. Kelley and Earl Lewis’s To Make the World Anew: A History of African Americans and any additional readings related to the discussions and questions below. Discussion: The nature and makeup of West African societies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries prior to and during the Atlantic slave […]
