Conga Drum Played by Paul Hawkins
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content: 20th century
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content: Percussionist Paul Hawkins played this conga drum for Melvin Deal’s African Dance and Drumming classes at The New Thing Art and Architecture Center. The community-based arts center thrived in Washington, DC’s Adams Morgan Neighborhood between 1966 and 1973. Conga drums are a blend of West and Central African and Cuban drums. Stretched across the head of this tall, wooden drum are two layers of hide. Metal nails secure the top layer to the drum’s side, while hide strings in taut twists anchor the bottom layer to additional metal nails near the drum’s base, spanning the length of the drum. Like Deal, Hawkins was an African American dancer, drummer, and educator from Washington, DC. The bandleader also helped to found Latin jazz, a musical style that fused bebop and Latin rhythms and united people in an era when race, class, and national origin typically segregated the city.
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content: El percusionista Paul Hawkins tocaba esta conga en las clases de danza y tambores africanos de Melvin Deal en el New Thing Art & Architecture Center. Este centro cultural comunitario floreció en el barrio Adams Morgan de Washington, D.C. entre 1966 y 1973. Las congas son una mezcla de tambores de África occidental y central y tambores de Cuba. La cabeza de este tambor de madera está cubierta por dos parches de cuero superpuestos. Unos clavos fijan la capa superior a los lados del tambor, mientras que unas cuerdas de cuero tensadas sujetan la capa inferior a otros clavos cerca de la base del tambor. Al igual que Deal, Hawkins fue un bailarín, percusionista y educador afroamericano de Washington, D.C. El también director de banda fue uno de los fundadores del jazz latino, un estilo musical que fusionó el bepop y los ritmos latinos y logró unir a la gente en una época en la que la raza, la clase social y el país de origen segregaban a la ciudad.
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content: Anacostia Community Museum Collection
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content: Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Paul Hawkins
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content: Anacostia Community Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1996.0012.0002
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content: drum
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content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: wood, hide, metal
label: Dimensions
content: 25 7/8 × 14 3/4 × 14 15/16 in. (65.8 × 37.5 × 38 cm)