Author Question: Discuss Ewe and Agbekor. What will be an ideal response? ... (Read 63 times)

abern · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

Discuss Ewe and Agbekor.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

When is an African?

What will be an ideal response?

Mochi · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

The Ewe live in territorial divisions headed by a chief near the coast of present-day Ghana.
Agbekor, originally war music, is an extended performance of singing, dancing and drumming sequences (fast- and slow-paced songs, and songs in free rhythm).
Agbekor involves intricate, polyrhythmic drumming emphasizing 3:2 (3 binary beats occur in the same exact time as 2 ternary beats) within a four- and six-time feel.

Answer to Question 2

Identity arises from local connections ofgender, age, kinship, place, language, religion and work.
Ethnicity comes into play only in the presence of people from a different group.
One only becomes an African when among people from another continent, only become black when near white and so on.