griots

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A form of griot — A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of griot
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    The long history is that spoken-word music made its way here on slave ships from West Africa centuries ago: Ethnomusicologists trace hip-hop's roots to the dance, drum, and song of West African griots, or storytellers, its pairing of word and music the manifestation of the painful journey of slaves who survived the middle passage.

    2007 April, James McBide, “Hip-Hop Planet”, in National Geographic, page 106
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