CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS II

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This course continues Cultural Expressions I in greater depth and sophistication: Exploration of African creative endeavors and cultures through traditionally integrated forms of music, dance and song. Some emphasis on the study of design, color and fashion merged with family, food and environment, as well as traditional African societies. The class strives to foster in the student, through song and dance and through plastic arts, an esthetic appreciation of the traditional African society such as the Yoruba people, the Dan, Dogon, Bambara, Mandingo, Su Su, Senufu and many more.