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Community Helping Artist | Palmetto Scene Fahamu Pecou Talks Remix Exhibit | Palmetto Scene

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Fahamu Pecou Talks Remix Exhibit | Palmetto Scene
Columbia Museum of Art’s latest exhibit, Remix, is a wide variety of works that look at what many African American artists practice – a retelling of ideas from their own perspective. One of the...
Pop & Soul | Gullah Music
 - Episode 10 Hip Hop/Rap | Gullah Music

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Hip Hop/Rap | Gullah Music
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African call-and-response patterns and improvisation survived the Middle Passage and became two of the basic elements of one of today’s most popular forms of music. In the 1970s, rap music began in...
Pop & Soul | Gullah Music
 - Episode 10 African Music | Gullah Music

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African Music | Gullah Music
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Music was an important tradition in Africa centuries before Africans were brought to America. Singing was a part of everyday life when people were at work, worship or play. The drum was the most...
 Charleston Basketweavers | Digital Traditions 4

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Charleston Basketweavers | Digital Traditions
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Excerpt from 1986 USC News production. Dale Rosengarten discusses sweetgrass basketry as a part of the Charleston tourist trade, as well as a one of the most highly recognized African-American art...
 Family Across the Sea, Part 3 | SCETV Specials (1990) 3

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Family Across the Sea, Part 3 | SCETV Specials (1990)
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Family Across the Sea, Part 3 Anthropologist Joe Opala has studied the history of slavery from the African side of the ocean. He has tracked a remarkable series of connections that end in Charleston...
 Family Across the Sea, Part 2 | SCETV Specials (1990) 2

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Family Across the Sea, Part 2 | SCETV Specials (1990)
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Family Across the Sea, Part 2 A young black scholar named Lorenzo Turner began to research Gullah culture and language. Folklorists and historians who had studied this culture before Turner and...
Ranger Fran Rametta | Congaree Swamp Stories Pam Corwin | Congaree Swamp Stories

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Pam Corwin | Congaree Swamp Stories
Congaree Swamp Stories Camp Workshop Speaker What Happened to the Congaree Indians, and Learning from Native American Artifacts, Culture, Foodways and Creation Stories Ms. Pam Corwin, a biologist for...