Word: afros
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...Gates, who chairs Harvard's Afro-American studies department, will also work with the company to create a teaching guide to the Harlem Renaissance...
...Gates, who could not be reached for comment, has written numerous scholarly pieces concerning Afro-American studies, and recently co-edited the Encarta Africana, an interactive encyclopedia of African culture...
Rhythm circles have been especially popular with women, who say the once male-dominated musical form offers a powerful means of expression. But the groups, which have doubled in the past five years, are also attracting executives, health professionals and schoolchildren. The most popular drums are the Afro-Cuban conga and the West African djembe--a loud, responsive instrument with the brightest high tones and the deepest, most sensual lows. "Drumming is primal," says Kulu Spiegel, who conducts circles for at-risk youth and corporate honchos out of his World Beat Rhythm Circles in Durango, Colo. "It brings people together...
...only survive as one of Puente's last moments, nor does it suffer from the stigma of being released in the shadow of Wim Wenders' wildly popular Buena Vista Social Club . Wenders' simple and similar premise of filming an American guitarist's effort to congregate the aging legends of Afro-Cuban music spawned a CD and an international concert, and Calle 54's American release seems to coincide with waning interest in BVSC. Miramax needn't have bothered, because the two are markedly different in intention, tone, texture and substance. The two films, while achieving the same goal of glorifying...
...endorsement by the Afro-American Studies Department also follows a letter issued Sunday night by all of the House Masters, except those in Dunster and Kirkland, urging administrators to negotiate with students...