Blog Post 11

Aspects of Gullah Culture
The ideas of this culture are mainly to remember the Gullah people’s heritage and their ancestor’s voyage across the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa to Georgia. The fact that they came over as slaves shipped by the tens of thousands, many Gullah people find this part of their heritage very important. The reason that this culture is bringing their . Activities involved speakers, stepping, dance, and music with a polyphonic rhythm with many membranophones. Their repertoires include mainly just different variations of beats and overlapping rhythms. The materials of the Gullah culture are intricate dresses that have repeated striped patterns, flags, sometimes walking sticks, and drums with a djembe kind of structure.

Aspects of Gullah Music Performance
The time and space is located on the coast of Georgia time is in recent years. The audience consists mainly of other Gullah people and sometimes local residents. Performers are decedents from black slaves who some sing, some dance, and some play the drums. The music itself has a talking type of quality sometimes with a broken voice and other sounds. Many times it gives off a gospel like type of singing, but far from it, because it has not melodic forms from instrumentation. All the melody comes from the singers while it over laps typically many drums playing in a polyrhythmic way.