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I Hear the Drums: Six African Poems

I Hear the Drums: Six African Poems G. Bumawu Fiawoo I. Tall Drums at My Birth Drums, Tall drums Of my people my birth. Were sounding at I hear them still- Not sensually, But silently. In this silence I love the drums; They remind me of my birth. * * All photos in this piece are by Griffith Davis, the Griffith Davis Collection of Photographs of Liberia, 1948-1952, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University. Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/black-sacred-music/article-pdf/2/1/72/791775/72fiawoo.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 13 February 2021 73 I Hear the Drums Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/black-sacred-music/article-pdf/2/1/72/791775/72fiawoo.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 13 February 2021 Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/black-sacred-music/article-pdf/2/1/72/791775/72fiawoo.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 13 February 2021 74 The Journal of Black Sacred Music II. African Drums Sound Loud African drums sound loud! Loud! Very loud! They move dancers to their feet, Onlookers to joy. They are heard far away; And I at a distance , Unseen by the drummers, Also enjoy the drum sounds. 75 I Hear the Drums Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/black-sacred-music/article-pdf/2/1/72/791775/72fiawoo.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 13 February 2021 Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/black-sacred-music/article-pdf/2/1/72/791775/72fiawoo.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 13 February 2021 76 The Journal of Black Sacred Music III. Let Me Hear the Drums Let me hear the drums. The rhythms http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Black Sacred Music Duke University Press

I Hear the Drums: Six African Poems

Fiawoo, G. Bumawu
Black Sacred Music , Volume 2 (1) – Mar 1, 1988
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© Copyright 1988 JBSM/Jon Michael Spencer
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1043-9455
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G. Bumawu Fiawoo I. Tall Drums at My Birth Drums, Tall drums Of my people my birth. Were sounding at I hear them still- Not sensually, But silently. In this silence I love the drums; They remind me of my birth. * * All photos in this piece are by Griffith Davis, the Griffith Davis Collection of Photographs of Liberia, 1948-1952, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University. Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/black-sacred-music/article-pdf/2/1/72/791775/72fiawoo.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 13 February 2021 73 I Hear the Drums Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/black-sacred-music/article-pdf/2/1/72/791775/72fiawoo.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 13 February 2021 Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/black-sacred-music/article-pdf/2/1/72/791775/72fiawoo.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 13 February 2021 74 The Journal of Black Sacred Music II. African Drums Sound Loud African drums sound loud! Loud! Very loud! They move dancers to their feet, Onlookers to joy. They are heard far away; And I at a distance , Unseen by the drummers, Also enjoy the drum sounds. 75 I Hear the Drums Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/black-sacred-music/article-pdf/2/1/72/791775/72fiawoo.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 13 February 2021 Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/black-sacred-music/article-pdf/2/1/72/791775/72fiawoo.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 13 February 2021 76 The Journal of Black Sacred Music III. Let Me Hear the Drums Let me hear the drums. The rhythms

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Published: Mar 1, 1988

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