10-19-2006, 08:10 AM
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Snowflake
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Dystopia
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From Music Trivia
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Originally Posted by Flint
Can somebody tell me one reason why African hand-drum traditions flourished more outside of the US (during the slavery era)?
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Originally Posted by Flint
Right... no-hand-drumming laws were standard wherever there were African slaves, but were more heavily enforced in the US. That's why we see rich hand-drumming traditions in other former slave states, but in the US the African rhythmic tradition was expressed through other means, such as tap-dancing (yes...tap-dancing), snare drum playing, and later drumset playing...
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