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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> > > Leslee Johnson: Okay. Welcome, everyone.'I ' m Leslee Johnson, and also I'' m delighted to invite you to this occasion funded by the Humanities Program. African Dance as well as Drum Traditions with Adama Dembele, who is joined by Justin Sardo, Imhotep Dilnot and also much thanks likewise goes to Reid Chapman, Renuka Gusain, Carolyn Ryden, Chris Asbill, and Kent Thompson, whose supports and efforts are making this happen. Before we start, we intend to take a moment to review the land, life as well as labor of Native and also black neighborhoods in this country.We are likewise pleased that this accompanies Black History Month. We originate from several areas to be at UNCA Asheville. And we recognize with regard the ancestral homeland and also native people who have been right here given that time long past. The land we are on today is the genealogical land of the Anikituwagi, a lot more frequently referred to as the Cherokee. To the Anikituwagi, this land was called Togyiasdi, Where They Race as well as belonged to Cherokee Country, Tsalagi Ayeli which covered as many as 108,000 square miles of the American Southeast as late as 1730 and included 60 or more towns.This act of recognition is insufficient to get rid of the inhabitant colonial background that has actually attempted to eradicate indigenous individuals from the history as well as awareness of these lands. The Eastern Band of Cherokee as well as UNC Asheville seek to affirm our interact to guarantee a solid relationship rooted in relevancy, obligation, regard and reciprocity. We also recognize that this country would not exist otherwise for the enslaved labor of black individuals. We honor the legacy of the African diaspora and also black life, understanding and also abilities stolen by violence and also white supremacy. When we examine the liberal arts, we need to also face these wounds.As we understand, humanities is not just background. Liberal arts shows us how background, philosophy, arts tales and sciences from ancient times to today
, weave together to provide us our present common truth. We ' re phoned call to take note as well as listen to stories and also voices left out of dominant stories, yet that have actually persisted, rooted in old customs, reaching into the future. The songs as well as art of Adama Dembele offers us a home window into old, pre-modern and also existing day African practices as well as demonstrates how the African texts we read are not indicated to be words on a web page, yet are lived embodied and keep areas together and also alive.Adama Dembele is a master djembe player from Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa. Birthed right into a household of musicians of the Mandinka ethnic group, his household has actually been playing the djembe for 33 generations, as well as his native house was referred to as your house where the Djembe is played. These slides will offer you some concept. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Oops, I'm so sorry. That's Adama in the- in the white container top there. He deals with areas and his own neighborhood with the children there teaching the songs to future generations. Here ' s one example of a dance. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ This- these two pictures reveal you the starting stages of making the djembe. They are sculpted from timber of particular trees. And also there you have a finished djembe in the foreground there among works in progression. And also this is a boy with a balafon. And you ' ll listen to the bealafon today too. Adama's mosting likely to tell you a lot a lot more than I can around these.This is an instance of exactly how this music that has actually been around given that old times is still utilized. This is a road festival in Abidjan. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ These are the masks that are likewise standard, ancient and also extremely sacred.
And this is Adama right here in the United States, in North Carolina. He ' s a LEAF musician as well as TAPAS instructor. He leads residencies, performances as well as workshops in the Asheville area, instructing the sacred art of West African drumming and genuine rhythms from Ivory Shore, Mali as well as Guinea. Presently, he leads a drum and also dance ensemble at UNCA. Atrioventricular bundle, Zansa started in 2011, incorporates traditional and also contemporary styles from West Africa, commemorating African drum as well as dance in music locations throughout Asheville. As well as I ' m mosting likely to offer it over to Adama and the band. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ > > Adama Dembele: I have a little trouble here, however I'll be fine.Hello, everybody. Great early morning, everybody. > > Audience: Good morning. > > Adama: Thanks for being below. Thanks, Leslie, for all this gorgeous discussion. I put on ' t even understand what else to claim because she basically did everything. However today we are getting together to share several of our tale and also the drumming and also a different-we have a various tale we ' re> going to be -I ' m going >> to be showing you. Prior to we start, prior to that, I would certainly love to introduce all these'instruments. We have a dun dun which is the huge one, and we have a songba and sidiki as well as we are -all these are djembes. And also we have balafon. Alright, so all these instruments can be played along with the balafon,'djembe as well as often we have a kora n'goni. We don ' t have that here ideal now.But the story of all these instruments is- I ' m initially from Mali, West Africa, but I was birthed in Cream color Coast, so I have a story about those two different nations. Mali and also Ivory Coast are two nations that are beside each other. And Also Cream color Shore, have like a- Cream color Shore have like a -even more like 60 different ethnic team.
And also all those 60 various ethnic team have like a different society as well as various sort of tool they play and also various songs and also various -different language. You understand in some cases individuals say like -they're kind of like, individuals call it dialect. Because people think they're kind of I call them language since they ' re extremely, very separate. They ' re not -they ' re not they ' re not going to like they ' re dissimilar. Okay, so besides this language, Ivory Coastline additionally speak French. Since it's a French colonized nation, you know, in West Africa, we have like an English part, and we have a French component. So Cream Color Shore, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana- I indicate, Ghana that's the English component Ghana, Sierra Leone, Nigeria or Liberia.If you go there, you ' re mosting likely to listen to English a great deal better. See if you most likely to Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal, those are extra like a French part. I expanded up with talking a various language before French, like my language, my indigenous language, language is the Bambara
. So after Bambara, like I rehashed, Africans have thus numerous various team ethnic. It being the various component of- German this group and also all of that make me comprehend a whole lot of different, different language and all that prior to prior to even English. I start to discover English when I came right here, but before when I was back house, my residence was like a- my house is a it ' s like a- it ' s like a djembe house.Why I state it's a djembe home? Due to the fact that my family members been keeping the -keeping this society for numerous, many, many generation. And also due to the fact that in the past- back in the day, this songs was not just something - people were just taking after that, simply like a- do to, , it'resembled an interaction of a great deal of various rhythm. So my family was- my household -all these, these points. It was not just so, it was not just like a business to earning money or business to do anything, but it was a kind of what they do.It was a role for them. They required to have that. They required to keep the society due to the fact that someone needed to keep this tale. As well as that ' s exactly how it go. That ' s how we understand about like somebody in the 2023 generation, 2023 generation is due to the fact that we have like culture keepers. Okay, so besides of this, this language, I claimed that due to the fact that now my household carrying this djembe - djembe tale.
The story come like a- comes right from Mali. It's not from Cream color Coast. So why do I keep it- why do I maintain this tale for me? When I was more youthful, I was just going from college when I get back I simply play djembe because I see my bro and also sis, they all play.So I didn ' t have any kind of choice like I -it was family work. So when I got home, I have to do it They put me a little, a little stick. I have to lug beat and bring whatever. But it was just not such as- for me. For me, when I was younger, I was assuming it was simply -it was just music. As well as when I start to be little older, I begin to attempt to recognize, what is it behind this songs? What'is it about behind this tool? So I started to have conversation with my uncle and my -and also my grandpa, who was like 81, that was informing us the story of the djembe, of the music all the time.So each time when we obtain together, he begin to inform me, he was like," Okay, this songs is not almost, it was not simply regarding like to just bet our enjoyable. " It was also communication. Yet I claimed," Exactly how is that the communication?" He claimed," Back in the day-" The moment we speak about now is not- it ' s not- those time- It was no like illumination in some town or no electricity.No like a computer system and also things like that.
So just how individuals made use of to interact in between- between those villages as well as things like that. It was a great deal of them was via music. There resembled this drumming have like a wedding music. You got like a birthday celebration songs. You obtained all those designs, different -different kind of song. So the way people', individuals utilized to such as invite each other like to when something took place in some place. They would call the drummers, which is like my family members. If something occurred here, somebody is having a birthday celebration celebration or somebody is getting someone getting married.There is a wedding. They were called a drummer. And when the drummer came they ' d resemble," Okay, so what ' s taking place below? "They inform them this is what ' s occurring right here. And also the drummer would certainly come and they begin to play the rhythm that opts for that. And if it's a wedding event or anything it was -And it ' s not almost like wedding event songs also like a recovery music we have, there is all of that.So when the drummers start to play, or when they begin to play the wedding celebration songs or the birthday celebration songs, that ' s just how currently the following door, as well as everyone that live about, they hear that songs they such as," Oh, alright, something occurred at this house next door." Which ' s just how individuals were getting with each other and come and sit together as well as celebrate and celebrate what ' s going on at that area. It was -it was like that little by little, however it was not simply about like a simply a just for a wedding celebration or of a birthday party. It was also even a moon is like there resembled a really, very unique point in West Africa during that time. Even now it ' s still some village, when it's a moon, you can not miss'it. You can miss the moon there since there's no light.When resembles -when it's not complete, individuals go outside, they have like a flashlight or they have like a little lamp. That ' s just how people travelling. However when it's a moon, nobody can see. That ' s how the town and various villages they come as well as obtain together as well as they commemorate due to the fact that it is light and also it'' s like an enjoyable time.Everybody ' s like, "Oh, everyone ' s happy." It ' s a little like here
when it's winter season time. when it ' s extremely cool, individuals- everybody ' s in. When it begin to obtain cozy'everybody ' s delighted, be in the sun and also stuff like that. So it it ' s a bit like there. There is one thing my grandfather was informing me concerning all this story concerning the drumming story, it was like
very essential for me.He claimed why the complete moon'was crucial'. The moon was bringing individuals with each other, since like I rehashed, everybody''s within. But when it resembles a moon, when it's something people come out with the various music and also start'to commemorate. That party was taking place all the time. As well as he ' s told me about the tale of a young boy whose name was Samadi, alright.
Samadi- Samadi is the one huge, big, big word in my language, Bambara.Samadi can mean no, I ' m sorry. It can suggest thank you. It can mean like i'm sorry. You obtained a great deal of different significances. So this child was called Samadhi. And also the kid was-he was really unique due to the fact that why he was unique back then in Africa, the time I ' m speaking about now, it ' s like a- it resembles, now, we are we remain in the 20s, alright.We are in the 20s.
We are speaking about in 19, 18, 16, 17, 15, 14, right to such as 12. We speak about long, long time earlier, back in the day. So that boy, he was a-when he came- when he came he was like a various than everyone outside the neighborhood. What was that distinction? Due to the fact that he was light skinned as well as his hair was various. His eyes were different. But we have those individuals in Africa now. We call it , we call it. individuals in Bambara. It's much like at the time people didn ' t know just how to respond to that kind of-to different-anyone different concerning the family since everybodys residence would look the very same as well as this young boy came and also he looked different than everybody else in the household. So people was very overwhelmed. Some individuals was assuming like a negative way, some people was like evaluating him, some people rejected him. The kid, Samadhi was extremely displaced as well as his spirit was actually depressing. Samadhi couldn't play with all of his friends because he was much like-everytime when he come to play with his close friends, they would attempt to be like," No, you are various than us,"and stuff like that.So Samadhi was really feeling extremely hurt. And also he began to quit playing with anyone, it was simply him by himself, constantly. Even when it's a moon, everybody played, they have like a big community play, yet Samadhi is similar to by himself. So someday there was another young boy called Mungulu. Mungulu saw Samadhi and also he came to Samadhi and resembled," Why are you similar to constantly by on your own? "And Samadhi said, "No, I don ' t like these people since they put on
' t like me. ""So I don ' t intend to become part of that. I wear ' t wish to be around them."As well as the young boy was like,"No, put on ' t state that. Don ' t state that, wear ' t do that. You shouldn't- what did they do to you? "Samadhi claimed,"I tried to have fun with them as well as they didn ' t desire to play with me. I ' m not happy. " As well as Mungulu informs Samadhi, he resembled," Okay, I comprehend, that, yet what's your name?" And Samadhi said," My name is Samadhi."And he said,"Wow, that ' s a heavyweight." Your name is Samadhi, that called ways forgiveness, it suggest I ' m sorry.It indicate please. It indicate every one of that. So you are that heavyweight. You need to -you need to forgive them. You'must comprehend. You must follow your name and understand them. Samadhi was like, "Oh fine, that makes sense. I can, I can do that. " So Mungulu tells Samadhi, "Please forgive them. Include me and also allow ' s most likely to my community. My area is mosting likely to accept you. You ' re mosting likely to play with me and my community. "And also Samadhi was like,"No, I wear ' t desire to. I put on ' t intend to someone to-to be mean to me once more or things like that." And Mungulu was trying so hard and also Samadhi started to comply with him.So when he started to rise, he was like, "Okay. "Mungulu was so pleased. He begin this tune, which this song has to do with like, everyone obtain'with each other as well as play. Everybody obtain together as well as have a good time. Mungulu was like,"Okay, let ' s sing this tune for you." And also we're going to commemorate this tale. That ' s when they were walking to-they were strolling to Mungulu's
neighborhood. And also they begin to sing this track like that. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ And when they were walking, they were playing this songs as well as everybody was satisfied. Both of them enjoyed and also Samadhi'just quit. He resembled, "No, I ' m not going to go I stopped.'" And Mungulu resembled,"Why did you stop?" He resembled, "No, I wear ' t-I wear ' t assume I can think what you're saying.If I go, I ' m going to -I ' m going to have this same trouble that occurred in the past."Mungulu was like,"No, please, please. I ' m informing you, my community is really various. They ' re going to approve you. Everything ' s mosting likely to be okay." Samadhi was like, they were still chatting concerning it and Samadhi start to listen to the Mulungu's people community was like vocal singing one more song, which such as, was calling the individuals, calling song. Like resembled,"Everyone come, everybody come. We are waiting for you. And also someone resembled, "Oh, your area called everyone to play with you.Is that true?" And also he resembled,"Yeah, what is that tune? "And he begin to play the track, ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ As well as so he start to state that and when he hear that track, he was like,"Okay, I believe you now, so let ' s go."He went to Samadhi's area. I mean, he went to Mungulu's neighborhood and when he got there, everybody was like, "Oh, you brought somebody brand-new right here. "They all- and he presented Mugnulu to his area. And everybody resembled, inviting Mungulu with their hand on their heart. They were all like,"Oh, Samadhi, I ' m sorry." Everyone resembled,"Oh Samadhi, welcome to our neighborhood. Invite to our community." Everyone resembled that. He was very surprised as well as he was like,"Whoa, fine."He approved. He resembled dance with them and also speaking and talking with them. And after that, he pertained to -he concerned Mungulu. He claimed to Mungulu, "Why are your individuals, your community was pertaining to me as well as they all was like, stating hi to me, as well as they all resembled placing their hand on their heart, as well as state hi to me and welcome me? Why?"And Mungulu said,"That ' s an excellent concern, yet I can not answer it.Let ' s visit Famudu."He's the oldest."Perhaps you can inform us what does that indicate?"And they went to see Famudu. As well as Famudu said, "Right here in our area, we invite people at this contemporary area, we invite individuals with their heart because their heart can see. The heart you saw-the heart can see. We'- when I see individuals with their eye. " And he said-and also Samadhi was confused. He said," You stated the eye can see. You got to see people with your eye. " He said,"I see you, I see you. " He stated, "It put on ' t make feeling. " And Famudu said,"Yes, all of this put on ' t make good sense since you believe when I stated the heart wear ' t see and also you say hi with the heart, it's because when the heart sees people-If you see someone like that, your eyes see the person.Your eyes see what the individual's putting on, what the person resemble, what the'individual's offering you. So the eye can judge prior to they also claim hi to the individual. He stated,"When your heart sees someone, the heart do not see what color you are or what clothes you're using, anything you wear your heart-
You see the human being for who he is. That ' s why they what to claim hi to you. They were stating,"We see you." And Samadhi resembled, "Okay, that makes good sense. "That ' s why now when you go to the contemporary community, also currently you ' re going to see a great deal of people stop and people welcome you, doing like the welcome or they claim hi. Hi. Hi.'That area, that culture thing, stay there for for also now, okay. And also the Mandinka Empire, like I claimed again, every one of these points, we ' re mosting likely to discuss Sundiata, Geeta after the second part. For now, when somebody obtained accepted to Mungulu's community, they would celebrate. They were like, "Okay, allow ' s have fun now, what are we going to do? We ' re going to celebrate along with our new good friend."'So to celebrate us -this one is called Coucou.So they always play that tune. Currently I have some pupils here, I assume from my Tuesday Afro Ensemble class. I want to invite them if they ' re below, I wish to'welcome them on phase. Yeah, I want to invite them below. As well as we ' re gon na play this song together.
Like I claimed, it ' s a party tune? They ' re going to come.And likewise we have a great deal of drums, so I ' m going to welcome a couple more'people. Any person intend to come join us? A pair even more people? Yes, you come. One more, Much more. We ' ve got six. The number of drums we obtained? Yes, begun. The number of drummers we got? Begin,'everyone.
Not everybody. Come on number of people. We obtained a lot more drums. A lot more drums. So today I ' m here to share. I ' m doing this discussion we do now is to share the society as well as likewise to chat regarding where this instrument originates from, as well as how this tool as well as this songs was bringing individuals with each other back in the day in Africa where they didn ' t have -when they didn ' t have like all this communication -or this mobile phone when didn't have like a mobile phone or electrical power and also all this things. So that ' s why I ' m sharing this. Okay, now I got all my musicians here. Are you ready for the tune, Coucou? Okay. So allow ' s begin it.I ' m going -I ' m going to play the balafon for that. You all set, yeah? Okay, ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Offer it up for them. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ One, two. That was excellent? Now we obtained musicians. We have drummer currently. I think we ' re missing out on something, right? They ' re not -they ' re not they ' re not going to like they ' re not comparable. I start to discover English when I came here, however before when I was back house, my house was like a- my residence is a it ' s like a- it ' s like a djembe house.Why I say it's a djembe residence? And that ' s just how individuals were getting together as well as come and also rest with each other as well as commemorate as well as celebrate what ' s going on at that area. I ' m doing this discussion we do right now is to share the culture as well as also to chat about where this tool comes from, and also how this instrument and also this music was bringing individuals together back in the day in Africa where they didn ' t have -when they didn ' t have like all this interaction -or this cell phone when didn't have like a cell phone or electrical energy as well as all this stuff. Allow ' s begin it.I ' m going -I ' m going to play the balafon for that.So we speak about a bit of the tale of Samadhi as well as exactly how Samadhi was accepted because a community and also they were dancing with each other. Everyone mored than happy so individuals was playing music, however no one was dance. Is that right? I put on'' t assume people can just such as play songs without dance? So I think I intend to dance. I don't wan na dance by myself. So how are we mosting likely to do that? Yet I can- I can show somebody some dance steps and we can do it together.How regarding that
? I understand some individuals are ready, begun people. Come on people here up. Come on people, up right here. I need a couple of individuals up here. We're mosting likely to do some dance. Okay. We're going to close this component, this first part, with our dancing and also drumming. And now we'' re mosting likely to resort to the 2nd tale we have for you today. Okay, everyone, come here in a line. All right, make it one line below. I ' m mosting likely to be in front so make a line behind me.Here we go. So currently your very first -your very first relocation you ' re mosting likely to be doing -'I ' m mosting likely to educate them the thing initially. As well as afterwards, the songs is going to start and they'' re mosting likely to do it. So currently the first point you reached do, this is a drum call you'' re going to listen to, Pa pa pa pa pa pa. When you hear that call your very first thing, you'' ve going to go like that. One and also two, you see.One, you decrease a little bit, one. Yeah, better. One as well as two, one. As well as you're mosting likely to be doing that. You'' re mosting likely to hear the phone call once again. Okay. Like a pa pa pa pa. And you're mosting likely to transform one and also 2. Exact same thing yet left, right and left. Alright. And also you maintain going. You'' re going to listen to the telephone call, pa pa pa pa pa. You go right and right, left and left. And also right, left and also left. Pa pa pa pa pa.You go left, right and return. Quit clap, clap, clap. Clap. As well as afterwards you'' re going to listen to Pa pa pa pa pa pa. You go one, two, one, two, end. You bear in mind? One- First one is this one, One and two. All right, pa pa pa pa pa. One and also currently pa pa pa . . That'' s great. As well as last one. pa pa pa pa. Clap, clap.Clap, clap. As well as last one. pa pa pa . One, 2. One, 2', one. Okay, allow ' s try it with music. Ready? This tempo. Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ pa pa . ♪ ♪ Yeah, you obtained it. ♪ ♪ You obtained it. ♪ ♪ Pa pa pa pa pa . Up and also up. You obtained it. Up as well as up. Up as well as up. ♪ ♪ Last one, pa pa . Right, right. Left as well as left. Right.
Left and also left. ♪ ♪ pa pa pa . ♪ ♪ Last one. pa pa pa . Good job. Thank you drummers. Excellent, give it up for again for the drummers as well as professional dancers. So you see, that ' s like the event I was speaking about. You see these people, we didn ' t do like any kind of wedding rehearsal. We were alot like currently. We didn'' t make any strategy, just claim, alright, tonight- today we're mosting likely to execute. It was not a strategy. It was just like the story of a Samadhi, bring everyone to commemorate something because completion of the tale was beautiful.So what we require
to do at the end of the tale? We reached commemorate. And also that'' s how everybody come as well as join me as well as join us as well as we commemorate together. So that'' s all, that ' s the way we desire it, all right. So currently we ' re going to change it to Sujata Tale Again, I ' m mosting likely to come back again to this. Now we're at the 2020s, 2023. But consider it, 2019, 18, 17, 16, drop all the way to 12. That ' s when the tale I ' m going to be telling you, that ' s where that story was starting, the Sunjata Story. Okay. The King of Mande.Okay. So in the past at that time, it was a great deal of things was happening a that time. You can ' t also visualize, it couldn ' t happen currently. And it was a lot of things when you read about that time you resemble," Wow, is that real? Is that what ' s happening? "As well as there ' s a great deal of things you listen to as well as you resemble," Oh, this is weird. Why they were doing this thing to him?" As well as occasionally you'' ll hear, "Oh, this is awful." At this tale of the Sunjata tale, you're gon na listen to a whole lot of different points, yet back in the day it's a tale. If you put on'' t hear the genuine story, if you cover it, you ' re not mosting likely to understand your story. Okay. The Sunjata tale was like a lot of branches, and also a whole lot of fight going on as well as a great deal of just how they satisfy up and also everything like that. However I ' m going to begin it- a little bit- and after that something, a pair things that you require to understand about this story, when you hear Zimbo or when you
listen to Dozo.The Dozo is the seeker, the hunter is like- in West Africa individuals who most likely to the forest as well as they hunt and stuff, they have like large power and also so we call them Dozo individuals. And the Griot, the Griot is more like the storyteller and also- a storyteller as well as a musician and all of that. That'' s the Griot individuals. You ' re going to listen to a whole lot with this tale, you are going to listen to Griot as well as Dozo. Okay, so it was one-time, there was this chief his name was Naré Maghan Kon Fatta. Naré Maghan Kon Fatta, he was chief of Mande, the Mandinka. And prior to I begin the Mande tale, in Africa it was a great deal of different empires.It was not simply the Mande Realm. There was different, different realms, yet we're speaking about the Mande Realm right now. The Mande Realm. Maghan Kon Fatta, he was the principal- or was the king that was really powerful. Yet he got a better half and he's got one child at his residence. And Also Naré Maghan Kon Fatta- when I say once again like the Dozo people, when they come as well as quest around, they need to come like- whatever they get, like a meat, around your spot, they have to come as well as give it to the principal, like to the king. So one Dozo was, like, searching and he- and also when he'' s done he involved provide Maghan Kon Fatta's component, and Maghan Kon Fatta was really anxious concerning And likewise occasionally I go to some school when I claimed, it's the animal skin on the djembe, I even had one question concerning somebody was like, "No, that'' s not nice to you recognize to kill the pet for your djembe stuff.So I have to discuss to them and also I claimed, "No you wear'' t- individuals simply put on ' t -simply go to the one pet just due to the fact that your djembe is broke. I'' m not relocating my hand or I ' m not attempting to find like any essential or attempt to tune it. Okay, so allow'' s-I ' m going to begin it. You'' re going to hear the call, pa pa pa pa pa . All right, pa pa pa pa pa . Pa pa pa pa pa . pa pa pa . ♪ ♪ Pa pa pa pa pa pa .So now we obtained one even more, right? And we'll get to your inquiries. Okay, we obtained another for you. We got one rhythm for you, it's called Castle. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Okay, we've reached call that tune. You all set? After this. Great. Hmm. ♪ ♪ That'' s good. Okay, now we're going to do it with the music. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ > > > Leslee: Okay, that is Adama Dembele Okay, we have time for concerns. There'' s a microphone right there that you can move to. As well as there'' s the microphone right here. So, yeah what are your concerns? Adama can address anything. While you'' re thinking.I have a question. You spoke concerning the songs that bring the community together. I understand that in Humanities 124 we read African tunes and poems, but they're songs that commemorate birth and also, as well as likewise working tunes. Songs that discuss a task like making a pot. There's a song called Lazy Bones that we check out. Are tracks utilized because way, yeah today as well as exactly how- >> > > Adama: Yeah, we have a tune- that was an excellent inquiry you asked, we have a track, it's called Like I claimed, Africans have thus numerous The from the Boli people. The Boli people are in main Ivory Shore. And is a dance where they were betting white people- white people, was functioning in the woodland, you know, like in a yard, not woodland in a garden. Like where they were making, you know, they were making rice.They were making-they were making banana. They were making all these, you know, cleaning up, making peanuts. While they were functioning there was a rhythm. Rhythm was playing at the exact same time with the dancing motion. To make sure that work, dance motion thing, they take that and give the city. So often you see like a performance. Those people, they do the dancing as well as move. That'' s what it is discussing. It's explaing exactly how individuals was functioning, like can be like ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ That's the rhythm. And the individuals resemble- they resemble one, two, as well as three. One, 2, one, 2 and get hold of as well as ordering stuff as well as place in basket most likely as well as relocate it off, tidy this up. So you reach see a great deal of dance. You see people dancing like that. When you see people dance, that'' s what they try to discuss. They clarify like what, what it was before, prior to also ended up being like a dance on the phase. We have a great deal of different dancing like this.These are angling, dance. You see occasionally when you exist, you see some dance and you go like that. Like the relocation can be like that. Wrap and also the grab. And it's like the angling, so they order all these moves and also they bring it to dance. >> > > Leslee: Okay. What is the function of women in the telling of the stories and also singing and dancing? The function of women. Are they likewise society keepers? >> > > Adama: Yes, they are. They're additionally society keepers like, among the evidence, because the very first, the very first- the last song we play, Cuckoo. That was a- that'' s a lady track. When women -the female was fishing, that'' s a track they made for them.You recognize, were they where going to like angling and bringing- and also make food. Over there they have most like a- even like at the ballet, the women would do the primarily- they do the dance and also the drumming and also the singing all of them. The culture keeper like- when we discuss Griot, when we discuss Griot, there is Griot men, as well as there is a woman. So the Griot lady, she told God this story or this track, like, They are vocalists, they informed an African story.So they are society keeper. So ladies are society caretakers in addition to like men as well. They both have a different means to maintain it, yet they carry out like their function in it. Also drumming, at some time people ask me do the females drum in Africa? I claimed yes, they drum a whole lot also, yeah. > > Leslee: Exist songs for fatality and also battle and grieving? > > Adama: Yes. Yes. Yeah, there is a track for that and also there is >> a song for like the healing, there is a song for every one of that. You understand, like back then too, already it still occurs in the forest, when someone get hurt occasionally, many of the moment functioning in a yard. When individuals get below at the village, they just recognize like a very fast method to bring individuals to the health center due to the fact that the roadway is not good and also occasionally there is no other way to call an ambulance like there ' s no phone, it's not there.So many of the moment they place-when somebody obtains pain, they take the person and also if you have like some drums or they call each various other as well as the people always, they run, they come they will certainly come when they listen to there is something going on, people start shouting and things. They will come as well as play the drums. And there is a healing tune. There is a recovery rhythm. Everyone makes a circle and they begin to sing that tune as well as play those rhythm prior to the person.And a lot of the time you aid the individual to be able to be active, to maintain it-to keep it, to have like an extra, you recognize, more power to be strong prior to they can also take the person to the city to visit the medical facility. So there is a tune for that. As well as in some cases there is a death, there is a tune for that, things like that. These are like in all the society. All the society have like a different song for anything. It ' s like that. Yeah. > > Audience member: Hey Adama, I have a concern concerning drum making.So your family members is a typical drum manufacturer family members. Is it gave by household in the family tree or anyone can learn to make djembe in your culture? > > Adama: Anyone can find out to make in society. I mean anyone can because when once again, my household-my family have like that society, >> however around my family members like the various village and different individuals, they can learn that culture, too.You recognize as well as when they discover it, they all share it. It doesn ' t have to be like someone have to be from my household to do that. And likewise the Griot people is not simply on Cream color Coastline,
it ' s not just my family. There ' s a great deal of them, there's'like a different name, like a Griot. There is a There is a All of this team ethnic have like a their story as well as you can maintain it as well. As well as where people concern my family, they keep their society as well, like I give you an instance. I know some individuals from the USA in 2001 when they involved remain at my house as well as learn the songs as well as learn all this society. And they come to the USA or several of them go to France and they maintain the culture.They keep you recognize, they share the culture with individuals, too. So the society is like that. It doesn ' t need to be simply someone needs to exist. Everyone can learn as well as share it and own the culture as well, since having this vital culture it is very important for everyone to have it. > > Leslee: And you can discover it also. You can register to take drums and also dance. All kind of possibility there. Allow ' s give one even more round of applause. Thank you, that's great. >> > > Adama: Thanks a lot. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪. As well as the people be like- they be like one, two, and also three. They describe like what, what it was previously, prior to also ended up being like a dance on the stage. Like the move can be like that. Over there they have most like a- also like at the ballet, the women would certainly do the mainly- they do the dancing and also the drumming and also the vocal singing all of them. When individuals obtain here at the village, they just recognize like an extremely fast means to bring individuals to the medical facility since the roadway is not good as well as in some cases there is no way to call a rescue like there ' s no phone, it's not there.So most of the time they place-when someone gets pain, they take the individual and also if you have like some drums or they call each various other as well as the people constantly, they run, they come they will certainly come when they hear there is something going on, individuals start yelling as well as stuff.
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