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Title The language you cry in / a film from California Newsreel ; a co-production Inko & Taller de Imagen de la Universidad de Alicante, S.A. ; directed & produced by Alvaro Toepke & Angel Serrano ; written by Alvaro Toepke.

Publication Info. [San Francisco, Cal.] : California Newsreel, 1998.

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Location Call No. Status
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  DVD 781.6296 LA    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD-R.
Performer Narrated by Vertamae Grosvenor.
Credits Camera, Ambal Landazuri ; editors, A. Landazuri, A. Serrano, A. Toepke ; original music, Leandro Sevilla & Marcelo Masciadri.
Summary Traces the history of a burial song of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States over two hundred years ago, and preserved among the Gullah people there. In the 1930s a pioneering Black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin, and in the 1990s scholars Joe Opala and Cynthia Schmidt discovered that the song was still remembered in a remote village in Sierra Leone. Dramatically demonstrates how African Americans retained links with their African past, and concludes with the visit of the Gullah family which had preserved the song to the Mende village, where villagers re-enact the ancient burial rites for them.
Note This disc is a recorded DVD (DVD-R) and may not play in all DVD players or drives.
Language In English and Mende with English subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Mende (African people)
Folk songs, Mende.
Gullahs -- Music.
African Americans -- Georgia.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Sierra Leone -- Music.
Ethnomusicology -- Sierra Leone.
Burial -- Sierra Leone.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Added Author Toepke, Alvaro.
Serrano, Angel.
Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae.
Inko Producciones.
Universidad de Alicante. Taller de Imagen.
California Newsreel (Firm)
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