Acknowledgments
Dr. Thomas DeFrantz
Greer Mendy
Mar Abril Cruz
Mona “Zydeco Queen” Wilson
Ben Pranger
Ishmael Houston-Jones
Niall Jones
Lauren Baskt
VK Preston
Claudia LaRocco
Jesse Zarritt
James McGinn
Donna Faye Burchfield
Gloria Kankenga
Aguibou Bougobali Sanou
Melvin Sutton
Can Wang
Greer Mendy
Mar Abril Cruz
Mona “Zydeco Queen” Wilson
Ben Pranger
Ishmael Houston-Jones
Niall Jones
Lauren Baskt
VK Preston
Claudia LaRocco
Jesse Zarritt
James McGinn
Donna Faye Burchfield
Gloria Kankenga
Aguibou Bougobali Sanou
Melvin Sutton
Can Wang
Pape Ibrahima “Kaolack” Ndiaye
mik Phillips
Kaijo Caggins
Jorgie Ingram
Parker Wagar
T Saiz-Perez
Arabia Richardson
Bryan Jeffries
Da’Von Doane
Uwazi Zamani
Laurie Taylor
CiCi Kelley
Imani Griffith
Courtney Henry
Reid Bartelme
Annie Corrao
Chris Collins
mik Phillips
Kaijo Caggins
Jorgie Ingram
Parker Wagar
T Saiz-Perez
Arabia Richardson
Bryan Jeffries
Da’Von Doane
Uwazi Zamani
Laurie Taylor
CiCi Kelley
Imani Griffith
Courtney Henry
Reid Bartelme
Annie Corrao
Chris Collins
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Giving voice. Creating knowledge. The genealogy of text. My elders are my libraries. My ancestors are my bibliography. Performance as a research space. My life is an archive. My history is my internal archive.--Ushindi Niwetu
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2015. They Are We. Directed by Emma Christopher.
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2017. The Broussard Sisters - Jure (eTown webisode #1303). Directed by eTown. Performed by The Broussard Sisters.
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Mendy, Greer E. 2018. Black Dance in Louisiana: Guardian of a Culture . Tekrema Center for African Diasporic Cultural Literacy.
2007. Mona Wilson Learn Zydeco Dance . Performed by Andre Thierry Mona Wilson.
2018. "Monsieur Banjo." Terry's Songs. 8 June. Accessed February , 2021. https://terrys-songs.net/misi-banjo.
Vazquez, Charles. 2015. "Linking Afro Puerto Rican Bomba to New Orleans in the Bronx." The Huffington Post, 3 November.
Giving voice. Creating knowledge. The genealogy of text. My elders are my libraries. My ancestors are my bibliography. Performance as a research space. My life is an archive. My history is my internal archive.--Ushindi Niwetu
Adamczyk, Alice J. 1989. Black Dance: An Annotated Bibliography . Garland.
2018. BOMBA.
n.d. "Bomba Bamboula Rhythms Video." https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jq-j4XPXfi-JBA-kduJ3NqqiyAgwqOnS/view?usp=sharing.
Bruce Sunpie Barnes, Leroy Etienne, Rachel Breunlin. 2020. Le Ker Creole: Creole Compositions and Stories from Louisiana . University of New Orleans Press.
2015. They Are We. Directed by Emma Christopher.
Christopher, MaryAnn Golden, and Marie Paul, interview by Tracy Bymoen. 2013. Black History in America -- US Virgin Islands (1 May).
Clark, Veve. 1994. "Performing the Memory of Difference in Afro-Caribbean Dance: Katherine Dunham’s Choreography, 1938-87." In History and Memory in African-American Culture, by Geneviève Fabre, 188-204. Oxford University Press, USA.
2020. Puerto Rico's Bomba, A Dance of The African Diaspora | KQED Arts. Directed by KQED Arts. Performed by Mar Cruz and Maria Cruz.
2017. The Broussard Sisters - Jure (eTown webisode #1303). Directed by eTown. Performed by The Broussard Sisters.
2014. The Caribbean Ritual Dancers Dance the Bamboula - Bordeaux, St. Thomas, USVI. Performed by Caribbean Ritual Dancers. Bordeaux, St. Thomas, USVI. 6 October.
Davis, Olasee. 2018. "Bamboula dancing's rich history in the V.I. and beyond." The Virgin Islands Daily News, 10 September.
Davis-Kahina, Chenzira, interview by Encyclopedia Jumbie. 2017. Dr. Chenzira Davis-Kahina :: An Introduction To Bamboula (5 April).
Dewulf, Jeroen. 2017. From the Kingdom of Kongo to Congo Square: Kongo Dances and the Origins of the Mardi Gras Indians.University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
2012. Duke University Professor Thomas F. DeFrantz: Buck, Wing and Jig. Performed by Thomas F. DeFrantz.
Duke University. n.d. "The Haitian Banza." Banjology.
Eileen Southern, Josephine Wright. 1990. African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks. Greenwood Press.
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau. 1844-45. Bamboula, Op.2: Danse des nègres. Comp. Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. 1995. Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth-Century . LSU Press .
Jarvis, J. Antonio. 1970. Bamboula Dance and Other Poems. Kraus Reprint. Accessed February , 2021. http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/opinion/bamboula-dance/article_080454b5-80a3-5073-b9fb-174afb5f01c4.html.
Ledru, Andre Pierre. 1796. Voyage auxisle de Teneriffe, La Trinite, Saint Thomas, St. Croix et Porto Rico, execute par order du gouvernement Francais depuis le 30 September, 1796.
Mendy, Greer E. 2018. Black Dance in Louisiana: Guardian of a Culture . Tekrema Center for African Diasporic Cultural Literacy.
2007. Mona Wilson Learn Zydeco Dance . Performed by Andre Thierry Mona Wilson.
2018. "Monsieur Banjo." Terry's Songs. 8 June. Accessed February , 2021. https://terrys-songs.net/misi-banjo.
Vazquez, Charles. 2015. "Linking Afro Puerto Rican Bomba to New Orleans in the Bronx." The Huffington Post, 3 November.