On May 22, 2019, at 10:41 AM, Tristan von Neumann <tristanvonneum...@gmx.de>
wrote:
> But then I played a "Court Dance" from Hans Neusidler's book.
>
> The guy next to me said - "Hey, this is our culture! I know this!".
>
> I was confused, and put this into the "universal music" box.
>
> Today, I played through Vol. 6 of Wurstisen (just came out, thanks
> Sarge) and found the same dance.
>
> And what do you know - it is called "Der Schwartzknab" ("The Black Boy")
> there.
>
> That's definitely two totally separate hints that the dance may be of
> West African origin.
Why not? Some form of a jig named for the Canary Islands (as west as Africa
gets) was known throughout Europe. There were all sorts of contacts between
Europe and West Africa, many of them bad for the Africans, to be sure.
> Albrecht Dürer once drew an African Man in 1508, a real portrait,
And a 1521 portrait of an African woman named Katherina, who was a servant in
Antwerp. Both can be seen at:
http://afroeurope.blogspot.com/2012/10/black-man-and-woman-in-16th-century.html
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