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The language you cry in

Toepke, Alvaro Serrano, Angel California Newsreel .Firm 1998

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Title:
The language you cry in
Related Titles: Series: Library of African cinema
lds02: Films documentaires
Afrique
Sierra Leone
Author: Toepke, Alvaro;
Serrano, Angel;
California Newsreel .Firm
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1998
Subjects: Folk songs, Mende;
Burial -- Sierra Leone;
Chansons mendé;
Rites et cérémonies funéraires -- Sierra Leone;
Films ethnographiques -- Sierra Leone
Includes: Cop. : Inko producciones ; Taller de Imagen de la Universidad de Alicante, 1998
Producer/Directors, Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano
VHS
lds04: Traces the history of a burial hymn of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States more than two hundred years ago. Joe Opala and Cynthia Schmidt discover that the Gullah family have preserved this song for generations in the United States. They travel to a remote Mende village in Sierra Leone where the villagers reenact the burial ritual.
Language: English;Mende
Creation Date: 1998
Format: VHS. 1 videocassette (53 min.) : sd., coul. ; 1/2 in

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