House Keeping / Scheduling Group Presentations / African Diasporic Retentions

 

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Unit: Iron Age
Theme: Comparsa

Introduction

 The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from native Africans or people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. The term describes the process of dispersal and the dispersed ethnic population. The African Diaspora has been formed by the movements of Africans and their descendants.
 
 
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Learning Objectives 

  • Understand carnival as an expression of African diasporic history
  • Explain the meaning of the terms Circum-Atlantic memory and socio-cultural density
  • Gain an awareness of the meaning of  the society of the spectacle
  • Experience carnival dance choreography

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Main Lesson 
 
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Havana

Question 1

 What is you impression of Havana's carnival in 1961?

 

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 Question 2


What is the difference between Havana's Carnival and Santiago de Cuba's Carnival in terms of dance?


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 Conga los Hoyos, Santiago de Cuba

 

 Article

Toward an Understanding of Conga santiaguera: Elements of La conga de Los Hoyos

https://www.utexaspressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.7560/LAMR34204


Question 3

When comparing the Havana Carnival and the Santiago de Cuba Carnival, what are the things you observe are different?

 

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Conga as Show

https://youtu.be/j868ZBSJFuM?si=BcKD2qWuEA_w-WyH 

 

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https://youtu.be/oMBvJPZHHVY?si=abxrY1KcZ2yahx1l 

 

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 A Note to Remember

The African diaspora has left all over the continent traces of their religious, cultural and social practices. Carnival is one of the events that illustrate the impact that African cultures have had on Westernized culture since its insertion.

 

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Case Study

Patricia Saunders


 Prof. Saunders is an associate professor of English at the University of Miami and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Faculty Lead at the Miami Institute for the Advanced Study of the Americas. Her research and scholarship focus largely on the relationship between sexual identity and national identity in Caribbean literature and popular culture.

 



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Activity


Students learn conga/comparsa steps


Accompaniment for Dance

 

Learn the mains steps of the comparsa (carnival street dance)

Create your own steps or phrase with 8 moves


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Journaling


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Glossary


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Sources

Milstein, Lani (n.d.).Toward an Understanding of Conga santiaguera: Elements of La conga de Los Hoyos. https://www.utexaspressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.7560/LAMR34204

 

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Students' Work


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