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Article: AFRICAN-AMERICAN RHYTHMS U.VA. COURSES REFLECT GROWING INTEREST IN "WORLD MUSIC".(DAILY BREAK)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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- December 13, 1996
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Byline: TODD GILLETT, CAMPUS CORRESPONDENT
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- AS PROFESSOR Michelle Kisliuk keeps the beat on the lead drum, her students dance to the rhythm, stepping and turning in unison. When she alters the tempo, the undergraduates move forward as one, brandishing horsetails as if they were swords.
The roughly 35 students in the African Drumming and Dance Ensemble course at the University of Virginia are learning a very different type of music than the ``classics,'' such as Beethoven's melodies, normally taught in college music classes.
In another course on Black Popular Music at U.Va., Kyra Gaunt shows the imprint of African and ...