How To Use Griot In A Sentence
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Griots entertain at ceremonies such as baptisms and marriages.
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A mechanic's son, he is descended on his mother's side from a line of griots.
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Few people in the west seemed to know much about the many functions of the griot, and I thought this may be a way of deepening the understanding of African literature.
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His group explores traditional griot music and the blues on its deeply satisfying 2009 release "I Speak Fula.
Summer Sounds, Outdoors and Outside City Limits
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Singing, dancing, and praise-songs, performed by griots (both male and female), are central to the celebration of births, marriages, and holidays.
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In addition to the storytelling and music provided by the griots, the Malinke like to listen to the radio.
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If I weren't doing this my red choice would probably be a Pinot Noir from Griottes Chambertin and my white would be an esoteric white from Austria, preferably a smaragd from Wachau.
Chicagoist
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Their aptitude for charismatic and persuasive oration has earned some particularly articulate Griots positions as spokesmen for politicians and presidents.
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D. soon to receive his M.B.A. from the space program, said he had developed business skills on the job in 14 years at CVI Melles Griot, a photonics company where he is a general manager.
Beyond Rocket Science, a Space M.B.A.
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Another special StoryCorps initiative focuses on African-American history and is called StoryCorps Griot after a West African tradition of storytelling.
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In West African culture, tradition dictates that singers and storytellers come from the griot caste, and Maal was born into the fisherman's caste in 1952.
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The griot is someone who acts as a living repository of births, deaths, marriages and significant events, transmitting oral history through the generations.
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Hip-hop's prehistory offers a team of curators any number of potential entry points: African griots and other oral poetic traditions, the Beats, talking blues, Muhammad Ali trash-talk.
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The iris leaves of Melles Griot iris diaphragms, constructed of corrosion-resistant, blackened spring-steel, are mounted on a low-friction bearing pins.
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Our poets and storytellers are the modern-day griots who speak the history and carry on the culture with dazzling tongue.
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Radio broadcasts and recordings of epic tales and local histories told by leading griots have helped transport this literature into the twenty-first century.
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Neal also recalls that the role of the blues singer is not unlike that of the griot in traditional African societies.
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Bring a couple of Cheese Whoppers from the city and you can have my Griotes but don 'be touching my rum, deputy.
Cuban Cuisine
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‘Mariama’, is a passionate, intense duet with male griot singer Ousame Sacko, and one of the album's highlights.
