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  2. Dancing Pallbearers - Wikipedia

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    Dancing Pallbearers, also known by a variety of names, including Dancing Coffin, Coffin Dancers, Coffin Dance Meme, or simply Coffin Dance, is the informal name given to a group of pallbearers from Nana Otafrija Pallbearing and Waiting Service who are based in the coastal town of Prampram in the Greater Accra Region of southern Ghana, although they perform across the country as well as outside ...

  3. Sub-Saharan African music traditions - Wikipedia

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    Traditional African music supplies appropriate music and dance for work and for religious ceremonies of birth, naming, rites of passage, marriage and funerals. [1] The beats and sounds of the drum are used in communication as well as in cultural expression. [2]

  4. Moribayassa - Wikipedia

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    The dance is thought to have the power to purge the women of harmful energy and restore their cosmic equilibrium. The "djembe", a kind of West African drum, is generally used to open a Moribayassa performance. The beat begins slowly and then picks up tempo and intensity as the dance moves forward.

  5. Gẹlẹdẹ - Wikipedia

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    Gelede mask from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. Held at the Birmingham Museum of Art Gelede Body Mask Gelede mask, Afro-Brazilian Museum, São Paulo. The Gẹlẹdẹ spectacle of the Yoruba is a public display by colorful masks which combines art and ritual dance to amuse, educate and inspire worship. [1]

  6. Traditional African masks - Wikipedia

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    African countries where masks are used traditionally Sande society sowei mask, 20th century Baoule Kple Kple Mask. Traditional African masks are worn in ceremonies and rituals across West, Central, and Southern Africa. They are used in events such as harvest celebrations, funerals, rites of passage, weddings, and coronations.

  7. African dance - Wikipedia

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    As people were taken from Africa to be sold as slaves, especially starting in the 1500s, they brought their dance styles with them. Entire cultures were imported into the New World, especially those areas where slaves were given more flexibility to continue their cultures and where there were more African slaves than Europeans or indigenous Americans, such as Brazil.

  8. Shane MacGowan’s Funeral: Nick Cave Sings, Johnny Depp Is ...

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    There was dancing in the aisles, Nick Cave singing “A Rainy Night in Soho” and Irish musicians Glen Hansard and Lisa O’Neill performing “Fairytale of New York” as mourners turned out ...

  9. Ijele Masquerade - Wikipedia

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    Ijele Masquerade, known as the biggest Masquerade in Sub-Saharan Africa, is a tradition of the Igbo people of Nigeria and was listed in the UNESCO Archives as an intangible cultural element in need of urgent safeguarding [1]. In many communities in the state of Anambra in South-Eastern Nigeria, celebrations, burial ceremonies and other special ...