Interconnected, not Disconnected

CULTIVATING CULTURE DOESN’T MEAN LEAVING THEIR ROOTS BEHIND

For the new-gen, it’s more about borrowing from the past and bending it to suit their new audience and new times. They have respect and awareness for tradition, and - if it can play a modern part - it’ll be taken with them. 

It is not that the two generations are wholly different, but rather that they see their priorities as different. 

The younger audience may use the same threads of tradition that the generation used before them. They just weave them into a new tapestry [while paying homage to the original threads]. It is a form of interconnection rather than a sense of disconnection. 

The new gen are looking to bring about and evoke a new power from their culture, taking it and doing something new with it, honoring what has come before while injecting something new into it as well, thereby advancing it and moving it forward… 

This is their own homage to their home.

Pseudo

“If you know your roots, you can't get lost."

African Drumming Lesson