African American Culture example

African American Culture to me is many things including family, religion, food, music, sports, and fashion. The most obvious to me being music family and sports. The examples I run into most often include sports, and music so I will use music as my example of depicting African American culture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soP-qtKhZxI&feature=related The Kanye West video about his song, "Hey Mama," this is a live performance of this song, and Kanye unfortunatly lost his mother suddenly and this is his tribute to her. Kanye suffered a great loss and he expressed this through his music and showed his emotions during difficult performances of the song. He was able to express his sadness and grief through the song and used it as a form of expression.

African American culture to me incorporates differant aspects of music and family to express themselves and this performance shows how the culture values family, and other cultures can relate to the loss and suffering. Music is an everyday way to express thoughts and feelings and it can be a powerful tool to show ones culture.

Sports and religion are other major cultural expressions but to me this video really relates family and music of the Black culture and gives an insight of the feelings and emotions to that relationship.