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smithsonianfolklife

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Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Video Title

Music of the African Diaspora

Description

In the past three decades, the USA has seen an influx of over one million African immigrants. Like Africans from earlier diasporas and like immigrants from elsewhere, they have brought their artistic skills, values, knowledge, and experience and created dynamic, often powerful new cultural forms that give definition to their communities in the USA. Highlights from the African Immigrant Program at the 1997 Smithsonian Folklife Festival illustrate the musical diversity and richness of the new African diaspora in the USA. [Catalog No. CFV10000; Copyright 2005 Smithsonian Institution]

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412

Video Duration

6 min 27 sec

Creator

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Uploaded

2011-06-20T15:16:14.000Z

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Youtube videos

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Cultural property

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Education