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Black People Are Known As Culture and Music Innovators

  • Writer: Elis Clain Group Staff
    Elis Clain Group Staff
  • Feb 16, 2023
  • 2 min read

Updated: Feb 22, 2023



Culture and Music Innovators is a tribute to the black culture makers of all races and is the 11th activity in the ECG Black History Month (BHM) series. Starting with:


Activity #2: What Makes Black People Black

Activity #3: The Lebombo & Ishango Bones

Activity #4: Pre-Colonial Africa

Activity #5: The African Diaspora

Activity #6: Slavery in the Americas

Activity #7: The Power of the Reconstruction Era

Activity #8: More on the Black Codes and Jim Crow

Activity #9: Anti-Black Racist Propaganda

Activity #10: Blacks As Artists and Subjects


This 20-Activity series provides supplemental learning for each school day of the month of February 2023. The first activity is FREE but each subsequent activity will be offered at a discount during BHM. Activities will be uploaded throughout the month of February. Come back each day for the latest activity.


The activities contain a vocabulary section to ensure students are comprehending the material, a reading section which includes much of the vocabulary and introduces students to the topic, a STEM section which requires students to scientifically think about the material and may include vocabulary, and a writing section which requires students to reflect on the material or answer the prompt using evidence or by making inferences.





The Brief Student Reading:


Black people from every continent on earth are known to be culture creators.

Culture encompasses many aspects of society including art, literature, language, food, dress, religion and music.


Continental Africans are known for creating the first monotheism religion (in Kemet, although popular academia does not admit it), also the drum, and for innovating spiritual music which calls for elaborate dances.


Afro-Asians innovated Buddhism as proven by the first statues of Buddha; shown with twisted hair, thick lips, and a flat nose.


Afro-Latinos are known for creating salsa music and the Salsa dance. Celia Cruz, an Afro-Cuban singer, was considered the Queen of Salsa.


Afro-Americans have created many genres of music including the blues, rock and roll, jazz, R&B, soul, neo-soul, hip hop and gangsta rap.


The innovators of Hip Hop were young urban men from New York who needed an outlet to express their experiences living as a Black person in America.


Most of the cultural innovations created by Black people are now owned by Europeans and Asians.

End of Brief Student Reading.



VOCABULARY WORDS:

  1. continental Africans

  2. culture

  3. genre

  4. innovate

  5. monotheism

  6. neo-

  7. urban


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