Musicians and Comedians - I Remember Our History ® The G. C, and Frances Hawley Museum® - North Carolina Black History
Note: This 3D Exhibit is a preview of our Musicians and Comedians Gallery Collection.
Enslaved Africans used music to communicate, practice religion, and tell stories. They also used their bodies as instruments, patting their bodies to create a beat, a practice called "patting juba". Passing down this knowledge, wisdom and these skills through generations of their children kept it alive.
Enslaved Black people also brought with them the knowledge and skills to make instruments used in their native homelands and these instruments where "adopted" and mostly stolen by white colonizers musicians. The history of origin of these instruments was erased, but soon Black musicians, historians, and teachers reclaimed them and began teaching the truth about them.
As in every state and city in America, Black musicians in North Carolina have created different genres which helped define every style of American music, from folk and blues to gospel and soul to hip-hop and rock. Black comedians have done the same.
In this 3D exhibition we give a preview of the our main Musicians and Comedians gallery.
The G. C. and Frances Hawley Museum® is a subsidiary of Behind The Scenes (In Action)LLC
Website: https://www.irememberourhistory.org/
Enslaved Africans used music to communicate, practice religion, and tell stories. They also used their bodies as instruments, patting their bodies to create a beat, a practice called "patting juba". Passing down this knowledge, wisdom and these skills through generations of their children kept it alive.
Enslaved Black people also brought with them the knowledge and skills to make instruments used in their native homelands and these instruments where "adopted" and mostly stolen by white colonizers musicians. The history of origin of these instruments was erased, but soon Black musicians, historians, and teachers reclaimed them and began teaching the truth about them.
As in every state and city in America, Black musicians in North Carolina have created different genres which helped define every style of American music, from folk and blues to gospel and soul to hip-hop and rock. Black comedians have done the same.
In this 3D exhibition we give a preview of the our main Musicians and Comedians gallery.
The G. C. and Frances Hawley Museum® is a subsidiary of Behind The Scenes (In Action)LLC
Website: https://www.irememberourhistory.org/
