http://author.voanews.com/english/africa/blog/index.cfm African music treasures is a Voice of America blog that allows you to discover rare African recordings from the VOA's unique African music library. Many of the recordings featured on the blog are unreleased recordings of traditional and contemporary music that were originally recorded for the VOA program MUSIC TIME IN AFRICA. en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:30:31 -0000 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:29:00 -0000 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss mlavoie@voanews.com mlavoie@voanews.com http://author.voanews.com/english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=DCE80926-C392-B0B1-78AC8A77A76767B6 Over the last 30 years, especially since the publication of Alex Haley's Roots in 1976, the West African Griot has become one of Africa's most ubiquitous, and clichéd, symbols; in Europe and the United States the term has become shorthand for almost all forms of African and Diaspora cultural expression. (An example that I find particularly lazy and erroneous is the description of African hip-hop artists as 'modern day Griots'. If anything, the appeal of rap music to many African youths is that... Senegambia Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:29:00 -0000 /english/africa/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=DCE80926-C392-B0B1-78AC8A77A76767B6