The McIntosh County Shouters is a ten-member Gullah-Geechee group that began performing professionally in 1980. They have educated and entertained audiences around the United States with the “ring shout,” a compelling fusion of counterclockwise dance-like movement, call-and-response singing, and percussion consisting of hand claps and a stick beating the rhythm on a wooden floor. African [...]
|
|||||
|
November 3, 2010 | Posted by Nicole Smith in EDF Oceans General, Fishermen Voices, Seafood, South Atlantic A perk of working with fishermen is of course getting a chance to taste some of the best seafood around. When I learned that the Gullah/Geechee Fishing Association would organize its very first annual seafood festival, I didn’t [...] Still Gullah: A Sea Island Sister Struggles to Preserve the Old Ways by Cornelia Bailey Essence Magazine Feb. 1998 AT AGE 52 I AM THE LAST of a generation to be born, raised and schooled on Sapelo, a little Sea Island off the Georgia coast. I am one of only 74 people left on this [...] Living in the Low Country In the South, the Gullah struggle to keep their traditions alive By Whitney Dangerfield Smithsonian.com, June 01, 2007 In Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, along Highway 17, a middle-aged African American man sits on a lawn chair in the afternoon sun, a bucket of butter-colored strands of sweet grass at his [...] |
|
||||
|
Copyright © 2012 ANCESTRAL CONNECTIONS - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
Recent Comments