African American Linguists

(Afro-Cuban celebration 07/05 in Havana, Cuba)

The following educators have found creative ways to enhance their instruction at all levels. Cheryl and Karen use art, music, and poetry to promote languages for ALL. Erin writes raps and uses rhythms along with song, dance, and art to enhance her French classes. Gayle uses Latin music of all genres to teach culture and grammar.

• Cheryl M. Jogan, Abington Junior High School, PA (Areas of interest are Afro-Latin American poetry, art, and music)
• M.Karen Jogan, Albright College, PA (Areas of interest are Afro-Latin American poetry, art, and music)
• Erin Jones, French Immersion Teacher, WA (Area of interest is Afro-Francophone music)
• Gayle Lewis, Phoenix City Schools, AL (Area of interest is Latin Music of multiple genres)

(Jamaican festival in Miami, Fl)

Here are some books and other resources you may find available at your local public library. The following resources are particularly helpful if you are utilizing Afro-Latino/Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Brazilian music as part of your cultural topics in language classes. You can find a more comprehensive list of books and recordings at:

http://www.descarga.com

AZUCAR! La Biografia de Celia Cruz.
Eduardo Marceles.
Reed Press, 2004.
ISBN 1594290113

1. BACHATA: A Social History of Dominican Popular
Music. Deborah Pacini Hernandez.
Temple University Press, 1995.
ISBN 1566393000

2. BOSSA NOVA: The Story of the Brazilian Sound
that Seduced the World.
Ruy Castro. Chicago Review Press, 2003.
ISBN 1556524943

3. BRAZILIAN POPULAR MUSIC AND GLOBALIZATION.
Charles Perrone. Routledge, 2002.
ISBN 0415936950

4. THE BRAZILIAN SOUND: Samba, Bossa Nova and the
Popular Music of Brazil.
Chris McGowan; Ricardo Pessanha.
Temple University Press, 1998.
ISBN 1566395453

5. CARRIBEAN CURRENTS: Caribbean Music from Rumba
to Reggae. Peter Manuel.
Temple University Press, 1995.
ISBN 1566393396

6. CUBAN FIRE: The Saga of Salsa and Latin Jazz.
Isabelle Leymarie.
Continuum Publishing Group, 2002.
ISBN 0826455867

7. CUBAN MUSIC: From Son and Rhumba to the Buena
Vista Social Club and Timba Cubana.
Maya Roy; Denise Asfar.
Markus Wiener Pub., 2002.
ISBN 1558762825

8. CUBANO BE, CUBANO BOP: One Hundred Years of
Jazz in Cuba.
Lenardo Acosta.
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003.
ISBN 15834147X

9. DANCING WITH FIDEL.
Stephen Foehr.
Sanctuary Publishing, 2001.
ISBN 1860743463

10. FACES OF SALSA: A Spoken History of the Music.
Leonardo Padura Fuentes.
Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003.
ISBN 1588340805
 
11. FROM BOMBA TO HIP-HOP: Puerto Rican Culture
and Latino Identity.
Juan Flores. Columbia University Press, 2000.
ISBN 0231110766

12. THE GARLAND HANDBOOK OF LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC.
Dale A. Olson; Daniel Edward Sheehy.
Garland Publishing, 2000.
ISBN 0815338333
 
13. THE LATIN BEAT: The Rhythms and Roots of Latin
Music.
Ed Morales. Da Capo Press, 2003.
ISBN 0306810182
 
14. LATIN JAZZ: The First of the Fusions--1880's to
Today.
John Storm Roberts. Music Sales Corporation, 2000.
ISBN 0825671922

15. LATIN JAZZ: The Perfect Combination.
Raul Fernandez. Chronicle Books, 2002.
ISBN 0811836088

16. THE LATIN TINGE: The Impact of Latin American
Music on the United States.
John Storm Roberts.
Oxford Press, 1999.
ISBN 0195121015

17. LISTENING TO SALSA: Gender, Latin Popular
Music and Puerto Rican Cultures.
Frances R. Aparicio.
Wesleyan University Press, 1998.
ISBN 0819553069

18. MAMBO KINGDOM: Latin Music in New York.
Max Salazar.
Schirmer Trade Books, 2002.
ISBN 0825672775

19. MERENGUE: Dominican Music and Dominican
Identity.
Paul Austerlitz.
Temple University Press, 1996.
ISBN 1566394848

20. MUSIC IN CUBA.
Alejo Carpentier.
University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
ISBN 0816632294
 
21. MUSIC IN LATIN AMERICAN CULTURE: Regional
Traditions.
John M. Schechter.
Wadsworth Publishing, 1999.
ISBN 0028647505
 
22. MUSICA! The Rhythm of Latin America.
Sue Steward, Willie Colon.
Chronicle Books, 1999.
ISBN 0811825663

23. MUSICAL MIGRATIONS: Transnationalism and
Cultural Hybridity in Latin/o America.
Frances R. Aparacio.
Palgrave McMillan, 2002.
ISBN 1403960011

24. MY MUSIC IS MY FLAG: Puerto Rican Musicians
and Their New York Communities, 1917-1940.
Ruth Glaser.
University of California Press, 1995.
ISBN 0-520-20890-0

25. NARCOCORRIDO: A Journey into the Music of
Drugs, Guns and Guerillas.
Elijah Wald.
Rayo, 2001.
ISBN 0066210240

26. REGGAE WISDOM: Proverbs in Jamaican Music.
SW. Anand Prahlad.
University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
ISBN 1578063191

27. RHYTHMS OF RESISTANCE: The African Musical
Heritage of Brazil.
Peter Fryer.
Wesleyan University Press, 2000.
ISBN 0819564184

28. RITES OF RHYTHM: The Music of Cuba.
Jory Farr.
Regan Books, 2003.
ISBN 0060090308

29. THE ROUGH GUIDE TO CUBAN MUSIC.
Philip Sweeney.
Rough Guides, 2001.
ISBN 1858287618

30. RUMBA: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary
Cuba.
Yvonne Daniel.
Indiana University, 1995.
ISBN 0253316057

31. SALSIOLOGY: Afro-Cuban Music and the Evolution
of Salsa in New York City.
Vernon W. Boggs.
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992.
ISBN 03132284687

32. SAMBA: Resistance in Motion.
Barbara Browning.
Indiana University Press, 1995.
ISBN 0253209560
ISBN 0313284667

33. SITUATIING SALSA: Global Markets and Local
Meanings in Latin Popular Music.
Lise Waxer.
Routledge, 2002.
ISBN 0815340206

34. TANGO AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PASSION.
Marta E. Savigliano.
Westview Press, 1995.
ISBN 0813316383

35. TITO PUENTE and the Making of Latin Music.
Steven Joseph Loza.
University of Illinois, 1999.
ISBN 02552067789

36. TROPICAL TRUTH: A Story of Music and Revolution in
Brazil.
Caetano Velosa.
Da Capo Press, 2003.
ISBN 0-375-40788-X

• African Music Encyclopedia
  http://www.africanmusic.org/
• B-Boys in "Les Banlieues": Hip Hop Culture in France
  Interesting snapshot history of the social and cultural effects of hip hop
  in France, focusing on the contributions of North Africans such as Assassin
  and the great MC Solaar.
  http://www.africana.com/index_20000130.htm
• Boys n' th' Hutong: Hip Hop in Beijing
  For those who still have trouble believing in the significance of hip hop
  culture on a global scale, this short piece should change your mind.
  http://www.beijingscene.com/v07i003/culture.html
• Center for Black Music Research
  The Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) documents, collects, preserves,
  and disseminates information about black secular and sacred folk music,
  blues, ragtime, jazz, gospel music, rhythm and blues, musical theater and
  dance, opera and concert music, reggae, son, merengue/mringue, bomba y
  plena, salsa, calypso and other genres from the Caribbean, traditional and
  contemporary music from Africa, and hip-hop and other contemporary musics.
  http://www.cbmr.org
• Classical Reggae Interviews
  Classical Reggae Interviews produces a unique collection of multimedia photo
  interviews with well-known reggae musicians: The Wailers, Alpha Blondy,
  Lucky Dube, Bob Marley's mother, etc.
  http://cri.cipnet.de/
• Cora Connections
  Resources about the rich traditions of West African music.
  http://www.coraconnection.com/
• Decima and Rumba: Iberian Formalism at the Heart of Afro-Carribbean Song.
  Interesting scholarly article connecting the 500-year old Spanish song form
  to the roots of Afro-Carribbean song forms.
  http://ietpd1.sowi.uni-mainz.de/~pseelig/pasmanick/
• The William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz
  The Hogan Jazz Archive is a renowned resource for New Orleans Jazz research.
  Our collection includes oral histories, recorded music, photographs and
  film, and sheet music and orchestrations. We also maintain files of
  manuscripts, clippings, and bibliographic references.
  http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/JazzHome.html
• International Library of African Music
  http://archive.ilam.ru.ac.za/home.asp
• Information Center for South African Music
  http://www.puk.ac.za/musdocs/isam/
• Musiques Afro-Caribennes
  Ce serveur non commercial a pour vocation de promouvoir la culture
  Afro-Caribenne au travers de sa musique
  http://www.afromix.org/
• On the Recontextualization of Hip-Hop in European Speech Communities: A
  Contrastive Analysis of Rap Lyrics
  Scholarly article by musicologists Jannis Androutsopoulos (University of
  Heidelberg) and Arno Scholz (University of Stuttgart) on a fascinating
  aspect of the "Americanization of popular culture in Europe." Based on a
  lecture from a winter 1999 conference in Ascona, Italy.
  http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~iandrout/hiphop/ascona.html
• Who's Who in Afro-Caribbean Music
  Useful but limited site feature bios and information on several key figures
  in Afro-Caribbean music.
  http://www.columbia.edu/~alt12/Drums/players.html
• Zouk Archive
  This commercial site is devoted entirely to the West African popular music,
  zouk. The site is a rich resource for information on contemporary activity
  in the music. Particularly noteworthy and useful is its well-organized
  database of recent record reviews.
  http://www.zoukarchive.com/
  
  Source: http://www.africanamericans.com/Music.htm