...BLACK POPULAR CULTURE AS A MEANS OF ACHIEVING INEGRATION "We as a society successfully eliminated the need for achieving integration through political agitation for civil rights and opted instead for knowing each other through cultural text. In what way(s) has BPC contributed or contradicted this statement?" Since the early 1900s, many legislative steps have been taken to achieve equal civil rights for all American citizens regardless of race, gender, age, or ethnicity. Throughout this time of integration, however, there was much political agitation to achieve this equality. It can be said that, “we as a society successfully eliminated the need for achieving integration through political agitation for civil rights and opted instead for knowing each other through cultural text.” That is to say, nowadays we do not pursue integration through political agitation but rather through discourse and education on various cultures, including black popular culture. There are several ways in which black popular culture has both contributed and contradicted this statement. In regards to its contribution, literature from famous black authors has served to better achieve integration through education of its audience on the black reality. Secondly, high school and university courses such as African Studies classes also illustrate how nowadays integration is achieved through cultural text as opposed to political agitation. Additionally, scholarly writings such as the article “The...
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...The culture of art has been apparent in every part of history dating back to the very beginning. It has allowed modern day people to learn and react. Just like many people before.It happens over and over, time and time again It is a way of communication. Not necessarily talking but the idea of sharing. Allowing a growth in knowledge and understanding. It opens one’s perception that may have been closed before. Cultures have connected and influenced one another over many years and continues as we speak. One of the most influential cultures of art stems from Africa. Africa is rich with culture especially in their dances, clothing styles, and musical instruments. Africa has influenced many other countries also and has made a huge presence in the...
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...The musical art form of rap has its historical roots embedded in African culture. Thousands of years before traditional, African American rap hit the streets of the Bronx, West African griots had been rhythmically telling stories to their peers while playing simple instruments. This form of communicating messages while speaking over a beat provides the original framework for the development of contemporary rap. After African natives were shipped along the Middle Passage during the era of slavery, they would often find themselves spiritually depleted and turned toward the power of song for refuge from their horrid lives. In the fields, a designated song leader would sing a phrase of a song and the other slaves would follow with the subsequent...
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...different work-related values. Norms and values which form the culture of a people create assumptions and expectations of the leaders. There has been a number of studies to examine the relationship between culture and leadership styles. The literature points to a varied views regarding the universal uniformity or cultural specificity of leadership attributes and effectiveness. Many researchers have argued for a direct impact of culture on leadership styles, arguing that specific cultural traditions and norms are bound to differentiate leadership styles. The leadership profile in a country is strongly influenced by its cultural values. This paper will define culture and will use the Hofstende culture determinants to describe African culture. This will be followed by the expansion of how the determinants of culture influence the leadership style that is experienced in Africa. Culture is “the collective programming of the mind, which distinguishes the member of one category of people from another” (Geert Hofstende). Other authors have defined culture as the system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours, and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another Determinants of culture as described in the Hofstende model are Collectivism Vs. Individualism, large V small power distance, strong Vs. weak uncertainty avoidance, masculinity v femininity. The African culture has been described as collectivism where claims of groups, associations...
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...I appreciate having the word of the day because I am always looking for more words to expand my vocabulary. Familiarity with gospel music is normal since I live in the south. I grew up close to Black communities, and since they have thankfully been integrated their music has influenced American music in general. I knew that it was an African American who created rhythm and blues, and that is what started the rap culture because in my education class I created a music appreciation lesson that included these facts. I also knew a great deal about slavery since I just finished American history one and two, as well as learning it in middle school and high school. In Analysis and music history we learned about the blue notes and twelve bar blues as well as gospel music. What I had never heard of before was white gospel music. They have such strange harmonies and notation, as well as the way they conduct. I believe that any genre can be used to glorify God, as long as the genre was not specifically created for demonic purposes. Even then, God would be the one who could redeem its creation to glorify Him, so if He wanted...
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...Well this is my view when it comes to Lebanese Americans and African Americans cultures. I will begin with a short history of Arabs. Beirut, Mount Hermon and Lebanon is where most of the Lebanese settlers in America came from. There are known also as the Armenian population and they speak of variety of language’s including Turkish and Armenian. However, Syriac is spoken by Assyrians, along with French and English. During World War 1, France and England separated the region into English and French territories. Eventually, “England assumed control of what became Palestine and Jordan, and France took over what became Syria and Lebanon” (Every Culture). The very first Arabic speaking Christian Lebanese individuals migrated...
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...In the large and diverse African cultures, there is many different ways they choose to express themselves creatively. Some of those ways include masks and extravagant costumes that are used for rituals or other ceremonies. Another major way they express themselves is through textiles. Sometimes the importance of textiles are overshadowed by the masks and sculptures used in the various African societies, but the textiles are just as important or even maybe more important to these cultures. Furthermore, the use and creation of these textiles are important as well. Different tribes use different colors and cloths to create their textiles. For example the Yoruba tribe of south west Nigeria uses Adire and Indigo colored clothes while the...
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...How African-American Culture Conceived Jazz Near the beginning of the twentieth century, Jazz was a new style of music being invented by African-American musicians who lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. The city of New Orleans during the beginning of the twentieth century was loaded with individuals of different ethnicities and backgrounds. Before the early twentieth century, New Orleans was colonized by the French and Spanish. When the French and Spanish colonized New Orleans, they brought with them their slaves from various regions of the African continent; mainly, the slaves came from West Africa. In the book The Story of Jazz Marshall W. Stearns states: …the various stages in the development of the slave trade had a decisive influence on what part of Africa the slaves came from... the majority of slaves came from the West coast of Africa…inter-tribal raids and dynastic wars in West Africa led to the selling of kings and priests into slavery, people who were specialists in their own tribal music and rituals (16). When the French sold the Louisiana Purchase to the United States, the slave trade existed until it was banned sometime in the early nineteenth century. However, even though the trade was banned, slavery in the United States existed until after the Civil War. Within the confines of slavery, a new tradition was made from a mix of African and American traditions. The mix of African and American traditions started when the slaves were brought...
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...1 An Analysis of African American Culture in the Health and Human Services Setting Introduction Communication has often been defined by scholar as the process by which people send messages and generate meanings across various contexts, cultures, and media. The process of communicating does not stop; it occurs cycle after cycle. Whether through verbal or non-verbal messages, the transaction takes place and is inevitable, named by scholars as The Principle of Communication Inevitability. Recognizing that communication will exist, whether intentional or not, it is important to understand the various areas of our life where communication may be vital to the success of the structure. One important area is focused on human welfare—medical, physical, emotionally, mentally, and financially—of children and adults. The method in which health and human service workers communicate with the people whom they serve is one that must be studied, implemented, and constantly improved. Health and human service workers are focused on the quality of life for an individual. They are not present to meet the wants out of life. The ultimate focus is rendering services that are conducive to one’s ability to live. Whether communicating good or bad news, professionals, patients, and clients have mutual responsibility for effective sending and receiving messages. People belong to certain demographics that shape who they are, how they feel, how they learn, their exposure to certain aspects of life...
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...Prince Hall (1735 -1807) was a major influence in African American culture. It is unclear as to where or what year he was born (it ranges from 1735 to 1738). According to the website of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Florida, Hall’s father was white but his mother was black. Hall was a former slave, a craftsman and entrepreneur. Also, Hall was a black patriot an abolitionist and the most famous black mason of his time. The height of his influence was from 1775 until 1791. He fought in the revolutionary war, created both the Prince Hall Masons and the African Grand Lodge of North America. He is credited with being the father of free black masonry. In July of 1775 George Washington set a policy banning black men from fighting on the Patriot...
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...African Americans The African American culture today is no longer the same as the seventeenth century. After slavery became abolished, African Americans moved on to much higher things and African Americans are just as powerful as any other person belonging to another race. They have their own month which is black history month. Some African Americans are paid more than other Americans, and some are even famous today. The African American culture had a great impact on the American culture. Certain foods such as yam, okra, and grits were influence by the African culture. Today, the descendents of African American slaves can be found all over the world, but the populations of African Americans are extremely high in the south of the United States because of slavery in the past. African Americans have equal rights and they are well aware of it. They can voice their opinions and have had protests against discrimination in the past. Many African Americans today have also given a wider variety to dance and music such as singer the late singer Michael Jackson. Instead of just being mainly of the Christian religion such as in the seventeenth century, African Americans have the right to choose any religion they desire. They also participate in every day events and follow the American main stream events such as local parades. Some African Americans today face discrimination because some descendents carried the same views as their ancestors. Different traditions of the African culture are...
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...African Culture And Personality: Bad Social Science, Effective Social Activism, Or A Call To Reinvent Ethnology? James E. Lassiter Abstract BACKGROUND This paper surveys and assesses the writings of selected African scholars on what they regard to be pan-African culture and personality traits, and patterns and processes of African cultural adaptation (1). Suggestions are also made for reinventing the study of African social, cultural and psychological characteristics, and using such knowledge to help solve socioeconomic problems in Africa. Finally, comments are made regarding the impact of sociocultural particularism and Western individualism on the study of culture and cultural evolution. During the late 1950s and 1960s, national character and typical personality studies were broadly condemned, breathed their last gasp, and were ultimately relegated to the dustbin of bad social science. Since that time, various African scholars outside the social sciences have nevertheless been sustaining and redirecting group personality inquiry. They are not, however, approaching their subject as did Western social scientists in the first half of this century who used questionnaire instruments to determine if Africans were "traditional" or "modern" (2). This was a particularly popular approach among Western occupational psychologists working in Africa in the 1950s and 1960s who sought to scientifically assign statistical coefficients of modernization to African populations. They did this...
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...differences of the time between blacks and whites and ultimately lead to the development of many black stereotypes. The conclusion of the Civil War brought huge social changes for African Americans. The 13th amendment abolished slavery, thus freeing all African Americans from their former slave masters. However, not all people followed suit with the new amendment, and the rights of the blacks varied throughout the...
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...Table of contents Introduction…………………………………………………..3 African Traditional Religion……………………………….5 Christianity, Islam…………………………………………..6 Influences of Religion on African Culture……………….6 Conclusion……………………………………………………13 References…………………………………………………...14 Introduction Africa is a continent of diversity. In this diversity there are hundreds of tribes and communities each practicing its own culture and religion. It would be very difficult to define Africa’s traditional religion as it would be difficult to define its culture. More so, it is extremely difficult to establish the dividing line between African Culture and African Religion. However, as much as there were many African Traditional Religions, their similarities were more dominant than their differences. We take up these similarities and encompass them as one African Traditional Religion. In this report, we explore the important aspects of Africa’s Traditional Religions and cultures that cut across the entire continent. This essay is based on various researches done by prominent scholars, historical background of Africa, news and books relevant to African studies. This report attempts to define religion, culture, and explores the major religions, African Traditional Religion (ATR), Christianity and Islam and their influence and impact on African culture. Africa is one of the World’s six continents. It is the second largest and second most populous...
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...going to give two exams of each group. Then I am going to talk about how each one relates to music and culture of the time period I have picked. The time period that I am going to focus of is 1970’s. The first cartorige I am going to talk about is Black pop. Black pop mostly came from 1960’s. That means that Black pop to grow form 1960’s Most of white listeners that listened to Black pop did not know who was singing. There were also white folks involved with Black pop. There are white fans,...
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