Essays on African Music

African music and dance is a very unique style of art in comparison to most Western dance forms. It often goes beyond the music and even beyond the body – into the realms of soul and spirit. Recently, Professor Dyane Harvey summarized African dance as...

The Masculine/Feminine Dichotomy The idea of “masculinity” in Congolese historical context was a “construct intended to distance boys and men from femininity,” (Gondola 7). It was understood that gender roles were considered neither fixed biologically or socially, but rather historically ingrained in the lives of...