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Brand South Africa: The a to Z of South African Culture

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Presented as an ABC list of cultural features of South Africa. Each letter links to a topic, and each topic has a paragraph with a link to more in-depth, and often fascinating, information about that topic, and about the history of South...
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National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Jazz and the African American Literary Tradition

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Article explores the influence of jazz on African American literature from the early history of jazz, noted jazz artists, the black-white tensions within jazz, to its literary influence after World War II.
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African American Registry: The Cakewalk, a Black Expression Through Dance

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This resource presents an article on the Cakewalk, a popular dance in the early 1900s that originated with black slaves impersonating their masters.
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The Vinyl Tourist: Mambo Mania

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This is an article on the 50s dance sensation, the mambo. This gives the history of the dance and description of it, but towards the end they discuss "Mambo Mania" or the heyday in the 50s.

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