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To find out where the StoryCorps Griot Initiative will be next, visit the StoryCorps website.
NPR: StoryCorps Griot: Dancing Feet
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In this week's StoryCorps Griot, we hear from two friends, Henry Belcher and Major A. Mason III.
NPR: StoryCorps Griot: Dancing Feet
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The StoryCorps Griot Initiative travels the country collecting the recollections of black Americans.
NPR: StoryCorps Griot: Dancing Feet
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His griot family has included noted ngoni players for many generations, but Bassekou has re-invented both the ngoni and its musical role.
NPR: Bassekou Kouyate And Ngoni Ba: Griot Music
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At the base of his sound is mbalax, Senegal's traditional griot percussion and praise-singing music, filtered through Afro-Cuban, pop and rock sensibilities.
NPR: Youssou N'Dour, 'Egypt' and Islam
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All the Griot Initiative recordings are archived at the Library of Congress.
NPR: StoryCorps Griot: Devoted to Social Justice
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All the Griot recordings are archived at the Library of Congress.
NPR: StoryCorps Griot: Dancing Feet
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Conde specializes in playing the kora, a harp-like instrument, and describes himself as a griot, a storyteller who keeps tradition going through generations.
CNN: African flavor at the heart of Paris
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The StoryCorps Griot booth is currently in Memphis, Tenn.
NPR: StoryCorps Griot: Devoted to Social Justice