Conga

The car was ready for our trip to Emerald Isle North Carolina. My brother Will and I argued on who would sit in the “hump” in the car. The “hump” was the tightest, most cramped and the seat that can’t adjust in the middle of the two awesome window seats. Will even tried to get my older brother Danny who was almost 15 to sit in that seat! “I have been sitting in that seat for 13 hours for 14 years! No way Will!” Danny complained. Annoyed, I held my breathe and volunteered to sit in the awful…

For years I have listened to Spanish and Latin America music as it’s rhythms, beats, and tones place me into a state of happiness, and find myself daydreaming of foreign lands traveled stirring up good memories while, mind mapping a trip to Cuba in the near. Reviewing the syllabus as to prepare for this Spanish class, it was a relief to find the magic bullet number sixty nine seizing the desire or need to look any further. This last project coincidently, is my final class prior to graduation;…

University of Oklahoma A Descriptive Review of: Gil Scott-Heron and his works: “The Revolution Will Not be Televised” and “When You Are What You Are” Jayde Williams AFAM 4243-995 BAM Professor Tammara D. Williams-Dias December 8th, 2017 Jayde Williams Professor Tammara D. Williams-Dias AFAM 4243- The Black Arts Movement December 8th, 2017 Introduction I will be giving a review of Gil Scott-Heron and two of his works called “The Revolution Will Not be Televised” from the album…

Australia’s historical background was a very interesting timeline and background. Australia was officially explored by Captain James Cook in 1770 while he explored the east coast, he claimed it for Britain and called it New South Wales. Australia was then considered a pearl colony because the first settlers were criminals (Ducksters.com 1). In 1803 Matthew Flinders sails around Australia and proves its an island. In 1824 Australia is named from “New Holland” to “Australia.” “In 1829 The…

Jazz music has evolved greatly over many years establishing a large variety of different styles within it. I will investigate the deepest roots of jazz and also take a look at some of the theory behind. In the 17th to the 19th century the true and honest roots of jazz music were just beginning. Black slaves were placed in the deep south to work in cotton fields where they would sing African spirituals, chants, work songs and field hollers whilst slaving away all day long in the heat of the sun.…

In this report, I will be discussing two different children’s books. The first book, Goodnight Spaceman, was published in 2016 by Penguin Books Ltd, written by Michelle Robinson, and illustrated by Nick East. Goodnight Spaceman is a bedtime story based on traveling to outer space. The two little boys in the book have a father who is a British ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut. They imagine the experience of spending time with their dad in outer space. The second book, Round is a Tortilla: A…

the song first plays you hear the piano playing slowly and hear women talking over each other while getting ready for a pageant. Hearing the blow dryer, makeup brushes being out down on the table, hairspray being sprayed on their hair. You then hear conga drums softly playing while she starts singing. It sounds like she's using a Jamaican accent, which when she talks you can’t hear that. Her tone through the song starts off slow like she is scared to show how she feel. Then gradually starts…

taken over by what certainly seems to be a force separate from themselves. What begins as a violent shaking eventually refines itself to an elegant dance that extends from the contractions of the pelvic section all the way to the toes and fingers. Conga drums simultaneously resonate their staccato beats mimicking the tones and inflections of the human languages of Africa. Soon the dancers’ moves start to evoke a particular feeling of refinement and elegance, even coquettishness and seduction.…