Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

While living in West Africa in the 1970s, John Chernoff recorded the stories of “Hawa,” a spirited and brilliant but uneducated woman whose insistence on be

Explores the meaning, motif, & theme of rhythm in black cultures throughout the United States & Africa.

Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the

The study of African music is a study at once of unity and diversity. The range of indigenous musical resources and practices found on this vast continent is as

We all can name some of the Africanist aesthetic-structures that fuel African American and American art ... Syncopation, Improvisation, Call and Response, Cool,