Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Gullah culture

In the Gullah culture I noticed that many of their performances take place outside. There culture requires dances and since they move around a lot they need lots of room in order to dance freely. Their music contained polyrhythm and noticed that they used many drums in order to play a song. I also hear a couple of tambourine players in the background. The dances seem to have the same dances because in one of the youtube songs there were people all dancing in sync in one of the songs or as close to sync as they could be. Everybody seems to be part of the music culture from men to women to even children they all come together and start dancing when they hear the music. They don’t seem to be professionals but more rather they do it for fun and you can notice that crowds start to gather once the music starts, which means that everybody seems to be familiar with this music culture and knows what’s going on. They even seem to have choreographed dances that go along with the songs because in the video you notice that they are trying to practice a certain dance in unison while the music is playing.

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