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Martha Ellen Davis

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Martha Ellen Davis is an emeritus professor from the University of Florida, anthropologist and ethnomusicologist known for her multifarious work on African diasporic religion and music. [1]

29 relations: African diaspora, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Caribbean music, Americas, Anthropologist, Anthropology, Cibao, City University of New York, Cultural critic, Dominican Republic, Dominican Vudú, Emeritus, Ethnomusicology, Fernando Ortiz Fernández, Hispaniola, Iconoclasm, Listín Diario, Merengue music, Music of Haiti, Music of the Dominican Republic, People of the Dominican Republic, Samaná Americans, Santo Domingo, Society for Ethnomusicology, Spanish language, UNESCO, University of California, University of Florida, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.

African diaspora

The African diaspora consists of the worldwide collection of communities descended from Africa's peoples, predominantly in the Americas.

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Afro-Caribbean

Afro-Caribbean, a term not used by West Indians themselves but first coined by Americans in the late 1960s, describes Caribbean people who trace at least some of their ancestry to West Africa in the period since Christopher Columbus' arrival in the region in 1492.

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Afro-Caribbean music

Afro-Caribbean music is a broad term for music styles originating in the Caribbean from the African diaspora.

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Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Anthropologist

An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology.

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Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and human behaviour and societies in the past and present.

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Cibao

The Cibao, usually referred as "El Cibao", is a region of the Dominican Republic located at the northern part of the country.

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City University of New York

The City University of New York (CUNY) is the public university system of New York City, and the largest urban university system in the United States.

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Cultural critic

A cultural critic is a critic of a given culture, usually as a whole and typically on a radical basis.

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Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a sovereign state located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.

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Dominican Vudú

Dominican Vudú, also known as Las 21 Divisiones (21 Divisions), is a syncretic religion of Caribbean origin which developed in the Spanish Empire.

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Emeritus

Emeritus, in its current usage, is an adjective used to designate a retired professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, or other person.

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Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it.

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Fernando Ortiz Fernández

Fernando Ortiz Fernández (Havana, 16 July 1881 – 10 April 1969) was a Cuban essayist, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and scholar of Afro-Cuban culture.

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Hispaniola

Hispaniola (Spanish: La Española; Latin and French: Hispaniola; Haitian Creole: Ispayola; Taíno: Haiti) is an island in the Caribbean island group, the Greater Antilles.

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Iconoclasm

IconoclasmLiterally, "image-breaking", from κλάω.

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Listín Diario

Listín Diario is one of the leading newspapers in the Dominican Republic, and the oldest still being published, thanks to their agreements with the party in power.

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Merengue music

Merengue is a type of music and dance originating in the Dominican Republic, which has become a very popular genre throughout Latin America, and also in several major cities in the United States which have Hispanic communities.

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Music of Haiti

The music of Haiti combines a wide range of influences drawn from the many people who have settled on this Caribbean island.

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Music of the Dominican Republic

The music of the Dominican Republic is primarily influenced by West African, European, and native Taino influences.

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People of the Dominican Republic

Dominicans (Dominicanos) are people who are ethnically associated with the Dominican Republic.

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Samaná Americans

The Samaná Americans (Americanos de Samaná) are a cultural sub-group that inhabits the Peninsula of Samaná in the Dominican Republic.

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Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo (meaning "Saint Dominic"), officially Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population.

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Society for Ethnomusicology

The Society for Ethnomusicology is, with the International Council for Traditional Music and the, one of three major international associations for ethnomusicology.

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Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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University of California

The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the US state of California.

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University of Florida

The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a campus in Gainesville, Florida.

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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Ellen_Davis

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