"Anansi and the Sky God" The title of the composition comes from the West African folk tale of the trickster spider “Anansi” and his adventures with the Sky God. The piece is in six movements with ...
These 21 folktales, created by pairing Native storytellers with a variety of artists, feature creatures explaining how things came to be, like islands or stars, or animals playing tricks on one ...
Storytelling has always been at the heart of African culture . Long before written records, African communities relied on ...
"Retold from Verna Aardema's book, The Sky God Stories, published by Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, 1960.... The previous source is Robert S. Rattray's book Akan-Ahanti Folktales, published by Oxford, ...
Coyote and the pebbles / Dayton Edmonds, Micah Farritor -- Raven the trickster / John Active, Jason Copland -- Azban and the crayfish / James Bruchac, Joseph Bruchac, Matt Dembicki -- Trickster and ...