" Griot " is the first song on the album Rubber Orchestras by Trinidadian poet and musician Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band

Griot New York, which premiered in 1991 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is about the experiences of the underprivileged living in New York City.

Mandinka people | Mandinka Griot Al-Haji Papa Susso performing songs from the oral tradition of the Gambia on the Kora ( instrument ) | kora

Mandinka Griot Al-Haji Papa Susso performing songs from the oral tradition of The Gambia on the Kora ( instrument ) | kora

Mandinka people | Mandinka Griot Al-Haji Papa Susso performing songs from the oral tradition of the Gambia on the Kora ( instrument ) | kora

From early on the band featured electric guitar, electric organ, saxophone, horns, and a western drum kit along side Mande music using kora, balafon, Ngoni, talking drums, Islamic-style, Mande hunter co-fraternity song, and Griot praise-singing vocals.

Other notable weekday programming includes mid-days with Shelby Rushin & DJ Griot, afternoons with Lorenzo " Ice Tea " Thomas & DJ Entice, " The Takeover " with Felisha Monet and DJ Nasty on nights, "" Night JAMZ " with Prince Markie Dee on late nights, and an early-morning " Gospel JAMZ " hour.

Community Voices with Cheryl Mizell on Sunday Mornings, Sunday Morning Gospel with Maestro Powell, plus The number one rated " Sunday School Hip Hop Session " with Supa Cindy and DJ Griot.

Martin has been featured on dozens of albums and several film soundtracks, and notable collaborations include work with REM guitarist Peter Buck, Iraqi master musician Rahim Alhaj, West African Griot and master musician Foday Musa Suso, delta bluesman CeDell Davis, Rumi scholar and poet Coleman Barks, and Native American poet and songwriter Joy Harjo.

The latter founded the Mandingo Griot Society in New York City in the 1970s, bringing Mande music to the New York avant-garde scene and collaborating with Bill Laswell, Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet.

He has conducted a lot of workshops and he thinks of himself like a West African Griot, like a person that ’ s “ documenting something in music, telling a story and passing information down ” ( Steve Coleman ).

A Griot, who have been described as an endogamous caste of West Africa who specialize in oral story telling and culture preservation.

* 2012 – Faruq Z. Bey, American saxophonist, composer, and poet ( Griot Galaxy ) ( b. 1942 )

* Balla Kouyaté, Griot and touring balafon master.

* Ted Joans: the Surrealist Griot in From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France 1840-1980 by Michel Fabre, 1991, University of Illinois.

Key suppliers are Coherent, CVI / Melles Griot, JDSU, Lasos, LTB and Newport / Spectra Physics.

Key suppliers are: Coherent, Melles Griot, Omicron, Toptica, JDSU, Newport, Oxxius, Power Technology.

The Hausa, who make up over half of the country, use the duma for percussion and the molo ( a lute ) in their Griot traditions, along with the Ganga, alghaïta ( shawm ) and kakaki ( trumpet ) for martial, state, and ceremonial occasions.

In addition to this, the Bamana maintained internal castes, like other Mandé peoples, with Griot historian / praise-singers, priests, metalworkers, and other specialist vocations remaining endogamous and living in designated areas.

In the late novels of the Ivorian writer Ahmadou Kourouma, Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote takes the form of a praise-song by the Sora, the Griot, Bingo to the president-Dictator of the fictitious République du Golfe.

" African Griot Images.

* Stoller, Paul " The Cinematic Griot: The Ethnography of Jean Rouch " University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Then he taught the shekere, a West African percussion instrument, at the Griot Institute at Intermediate School 246 in Brooklyn.

A Nigerien Griot playing a Xalam in Diffa, Niger.

“‘ The Griot from Tennessee ’: The Saga of Alex Haley ’ s Roots ”, Critical Quarterly 37. 2 ( Summer 1995 ): 46-62.

In their case, this was built upon the Mande Griot praise singer tradition, along with Bambara and other Malian and Guinean musical traditions.

Organized in 1970, as a multi-ethnic, multi-national club band, Orchestre Baobab adapted the then current craze for Cuban Music ( growing out of the Congolese Soukous style ) in West Africa to Wolof Griot culture and the Mandinga musical traditions of the Casamance.

Keïta: Heritage of a Griot picture.

Today many modern Wolof musicians still come from Griot families.

* Doudou N ' Diaye Rose: Sabar master and Griot.

Un Griot mandingue à la rencontre de l ’ écriture.

`` Oh, it's that myth, about Orpheus and What is her name??

She said, `` My name is Songau and these girls are Ponkob and Piwen.

`` What is your name, boy??

`` My name is Dandy Brandon, missy.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.

Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

`` What is your name ''??

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Milton's name being fourth is neither too high nor too low to be assigned to the arbitrary action of vice-chancellor, proctor, master, or other mighty hand.

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

But it is tradition rather than the record which balks at the expunging of the Tammany name.

After the Griffin-Byrd political troup has completed the circuit in November in the name of a Pre-Legislative Forum, this is going to be the most politically oriented Legislature in history.

The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev -- or get rid of Enver Hoxa.

It is the same ole same, tell me its name.

And the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

You name it, our industry is producing it, and it probably is made in different models.