I just had a conversation with a friend that touched on cultural appropriation in the context of world percussion and drum and dance circles. It can be a sticky subject but I’m glad that folks have developed some sensitivity to it because it goes hand in hand...
I recently came across a discussion on social media about how people feel about facilitated drum circles and I saw that there were some differing experiences about what a facilitated circle is and what it even means to facilitate a circle. For sure, the term has been...
I grew up in a multi racial home. Half of my family was African American with post-slavery roots in the American South and half was white people from the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. Music, rhythm, and dancing were part of every day childhood. A physical...
