Riots vs Griots - What's the difference?
riots | griots |
* 2007, James McBide, Hip-Hop Planet , National Geographic (April 2007), 106,
As nouns the difference between riots and griots
is that riots is while griots is .As a verb riots
is (riot).griots
English
Noun
(head)- "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".