Gullah Music

The Gullah are people that have descended from an African origin. As noticed in the three videos displayed below you could notice that the culture and music are very similar to that found in Africa. There is a strong existence of drums are the major instruments being used to create music. Even if there are no other instruments present people still dance to the music that the drummers create. Since Gullah culture has slowly started to vanish the music mainly takes place during festivals or in churches. It was interesting to notice that the drums were used as rebel calls against racism. Since Gullah people where originally farmers some of their songs consisted lyrics that explains and portrays their culture by using various things that are related to farming. The dance done by the Gullah people seemed to be very similar to that of Africa. The steps that were performed during funerals and festivals seemed coordinated by someone since not ever one would dance at the same time, one group comes on the dance and then the next group with a different step comes to the front. Since Gullah heritage is being destroyed by development there is an annual festival that tries to bring back all the people with Gullah connections back to where their ancestries lived. During there are fast drumming music were people get to dance and times were people sing old Gullah songs they know. Since the population of Gullah people is so little I would not be surprised to see this culture of African – Americans disappear.
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