CULTURE
Brandi L. Robinson Soc 200 Telecourse July 3,2000 Culture is the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought typical of a population or community at a given times. (Webster's II New College Dictionary pg. 274)Culture is also the modes of thought, behavior, and production that are handed down from one generation to the next by means of communication interaction-through speech, gestures, writing, building, and all other communication among humans - rather by genetic transmission of heredity. (The Sociological Imagination pg.6) Although I am part of the American culture, I consider my cultural heritage to be with that of the African American society. Black culture is a phenomenal subject representing the life style, imagination an
For example, when people of the African American culture want to speak to one and another or say hello they nod their heads upward. Jazz is a music that consists of musical instruments such as saxophones, flutes, and clarinets. Rhythm and Blues is a combination of the swinging rhythm of jazz and other "race" music with the lyrical content, sonic gestures, and format of the blues. Another thing that the African American culture is known for is the extended family. Music has been the basis of the African American culture since the years of slavery, they used music then to survive and today's culture is still keeping music strong. Blues is an African American music that transverses a wide range of emotions and musical styles. I feel that after the past that this culture has overcome that our culture has united as one. Most of the writers of the African American culture write about their true real life experience. The four most popular and unique categories of Black music are Rhythm and Blues, Blues, Jazz, and Gospel. The most outstanding and unique characteristic that makes my culture one of a kind is our music, language and gestures, and writings. Basically our way of communication is the same as the next culture except African Americans try to be communicating with unity among their culture. "Feeling blue" is expressed in songs whose verse laments injustice or express longing for a better life and lost loves, jobs, and money, the blues also is a raucous dance music that celebrates pleasure and success. Gestures in our culture are also a means of communication. Another example of gestures is the rolling of the eyes.
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