Resources:
Tate Wetu: Oshiwambo language of Namibia
Example performance by Kuisebmund Primary School Choir in Namibia, Africa.
Example performance by Kuisebmund Primary School Choir in Namibia, Africa.
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2020 Teachers' Convention videos: Tate Wetu
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2020 Teachers' Convention videos: Drumming
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Drumming Workshop
1. Imagine you are in a community in Africa.
2. When you hear this rhythm, how does it make you feel? What do you think it means?
3. Cultural context: Southern Africa, more singing and dancing, less drumming compared to west Africa.
4. Group music: clapping plus one drum (leader, elder or expert)
5. Learn to play the "Come Together" rhythm
6. Classroom application: transition song, and a drum is like a microphone
7. Ovambo dance video
8. Dance drum beat
9. Feel it in the body. Example "sway arms left and right"
10. Dance moves
11. Learn to play the dance beat
12. Dun dun dun, dun tak dun
13. Freestyle