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Robin Armstrong in African Music in the New World

Sep 28, 2017

Publishing your Story Map!

After you have created your account on Medium.com, you can look at the first edition of our publication: African Music in the New World (click on the title to see the publication).

rarmstrong1001 in African Music in the New World

Aug 24, 2017

Story Maps and Time Lines

A Story Map is an internet platform created by Knight lab (https://storymap.knightlab.com/), which is an educational I.T. community at Northwestern University. This platform allows anyone to explore history by connecting information and images through time and space.

Clayton Herbst in African Music in the New World

Dec 3, 2017

Creation and Evolution of Calypso Music

As Europeans began to colonize and promote the slave trade, slaves often were placed in extremely oppressive situations. In Trinidad and Tobago, specifically, slaves often had parts of their African culture banned and taken away. As a way to resist, slaves…

Priscilla Owusu in African Music in the New World

Dec 4, 2017

Let’s get into Bachata

Bachata is a Latin American genre of music that originated from the Dominican Republic. This genre consists of a mixture of European and African musical traits that ultimately supports its history. These traits are basically the musical attributes that traveled through the Transatlantic…

Elsa Meyer in African Music in the New World

Dec 4, 2017

Raggamuffin, More then Just a Stereotype.

During the 1980’s a few Jamaican artists decided to combine musical traits of reggae with those of hip-hop to create a new electronic sound that the youth of that era were fascinated by. The main listeners of this music exemplified the clothing traits of a…

rarmstrong1001 in African Music in the New World

Dec 31, 2017

Black Music in the Caribbean

Volume 1 Number 2: Black Music in the Caribbean

Our second issue of African Music in the New World, (May 2018) focuses focus on music in the Caribbean.

This Link will take you to this issue.

Megan Coyle in African Music in the New World

Dec 3, 2017

Satire in Calypso? How Ironic.

The musical genre of calypso serves many different purposes, like entertainment or self expression. However, one of calypso’s most interesting functions, in my opinion, is resistance. Why is this resistance so interesting? Well, it’s because this particular function is…

Noah Conner in African Music in the New World

Dec 5, 2017

Calypso Music, Party Songs or Deeper Meaning?

Calypso music is a style of music that originated on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago in the mid-17th century. This style of music, which become more popular in the rest of the world in the 1950’s, uses an upbeat tempo with many traditional island…

Miranda Rep in African Music in the New World

Dec 5, 2017

The Evolution of Capoeira Music

Capoeira began as a mere means of physical resistance for slaves brought to Brazil by Portuguese settlers. Different West African cultures of slaves were combined together to create a way to fight off colonial men who pursued escapees. Over the years, slaves devised a way…

Kavante Green in African Music in the New World

Dec 4, 2017

Stirring Up Reggae

For my story map, I analyzed the history of Jamaica and its most dominant genre of music, reggae. I felt the best way to display all of the traits of reggae and how it stands as the most popular Jamaican music genre was to analyze a song from its most popular and acclaimed artists, “Stir It Up”…

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The Journal of New Knowledge about the impact of African music in the Americas and the Caribbean

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