Rocky Island | DIgital Traditions
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A song from "Goin' to Rocky Island" by Bill Wells and the Blue Ridge Mountain Grass.Audio
A song from "Goin' to Rocky Island" by Bill Wells and the Blue Ridge Mountain Grass.Audio
A song from "Goin' to Rocky Island" by Bill Wells and the Blue Ridge Mountain Grass.Audio
A song from "Goin' to Rocky Island" by Bill Wells and the Blue Ridge Mountain Grass.Audio
A song from "Goin' to Rocky Island" by Bill Wells and the Blue Ridge Mountain Grass.Audio
A song from "Goin' to Rocky Island" by Bill Wells and the Blue Ridge Mountain Grass.Audio
A song from "Goin' to Rocky Island" by Bill Wells and the Blue Ridge Mountain Grass.Interactive
Listen to the interactive version of the What A Friend in Gullah. Click here for the English Version. Storytelling performance by Anita Singleton Prather (Aunt Pearlie Sue).Interactive
Listen to the interactive version of the What A Friend in English. Click here for the English Version. Storytelling performance by Anita Singleton Prather (Aunt Pearlie Sue).Interactive
Listen to the interactive version of the The Jealous Bragging Turtle in Gullah. Storytelling performance by Anita Singleton Prather (Aunt Pearlie Sue)Interactive
Students will read and listen to Aunt Pearlie Sue’s animated English version of the traditional folktale "The Jealous Bragging Turtle." Stories teach a moral or explain the origin something in nature...Photo
In December of 1985, Bill Wells – a retired Navy man and musician raised in the coal-mining region of southwestern Virginia – opened Bill’s Pickin’ Parlor and Music Shop in West Columbia. He...Interactive
Listen to the interactive version of the Little Red Hen in Gullah. Storytelling performance by Anita Singleton Prather (Aunt Pearlie Sue)Interactive
Listen to the interactive version of the Little Red Hen in English. Storytelling performance by Anita Singleton Prather (Aunt Pearlie Sue)Interactive
Listen to the interactive version of the Little Red Riding Hood in both English and Gullah. Storytelling performance by Anita Singleton Prather (Aunt Pearlie Sue)Interactive
Listen to the interactive version of the Bossy Elephant in both English and Gullah. Storytelling performance by Anita Singleton Prather (Aunt Pearlie Sue)Interactive
Students will understand how enslaved Africans created music for their worship experience. Religious meetings in “praise houses” provided the spiritual outlet for enslaved Africans on the plantation...Interactive
Students will understand that music and material culture became a mode of covert communication between slaves. Aunt Pearlie Sue is our guide as students uncover hidden messages in the work songs...Interactive
Students will understand traditional blues form that contains three four-measure phrases that follow the pattern AAB. Let Reverend Leroy show you how to express your sad feelings by composing a blues...Interactive
INSTRUCTIONS: Click on an English word to see and hear the Gullah word. About Gullah Language Gullah is also a language. It was developed among Africans as a way to communicate with people from other...