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Title: | Native African Arts and Cultures in the New World: A Case Study of African Retentions in the United States of America |
Author: | Izevbigie, Omokaro A. |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | African Study Monographs |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | April |
Pages: | 45-54 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa United States Africa |
Subjects: | African culture slaves Architecture and the Arts Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration |
External link: | https://jambo.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/abstracts/pdf/21-2/45-54.pdf |
Abstract: | Despite the different languages and cultures in Africa, there is commonality in religious, artistic and musical traditions. Did the native Africans who were sold into slavery retain any of these traditions in the United States of America? How much of African traditions was carried over the Atlantic Ocean to the New World and how many African traditions still survive? In addition to discussing these questions this paper also examines what the psychologists refer to as 'motor habits' that are said to have been retained by people of African descent in the US. There is no doubt that when the slaves first arrived in the New World, they were Africans in their thoughts, modes of behaviour, customs and attitudes, until the restrictive measures imposed on them started to change their African ways of life. In Latin American countries and the West Indies far more African survivals exist than in the United States, probably because the slaves were better treated than in North America. The African slaves in the United States gradually lost contact with their past. However, some elements of African traditions, such as music, language, dance, religion and art, did survive. Bibliogr., sum |