The language you cry in : [the story of a Mende song].

The language you cry in : [the story of a Mende song].

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	2010.
Description:	1 videodisc (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:	English Mende
Series:	Library of African cinema Library of African cinema (Videocassette)
Subject:	African Americans -- Music. African Americans. Civilization. Africa -- Civilization. Africa. Documentary films. Feature films. Nonfiction films. Documentary films. Feature films. Music. Nonfiction films.
Format:	DVD Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8855144

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Varying Form of Title:	Story of a Mende song
Other authors / contributors:	Toepke, Alvaro. Serrano, Angel. California Newsreel (Firm)
Notes:	Producer/director: Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano. Narrator, Vertamae Grosvenor. Originally issued on VHS tape by California Newsreel in 1998. Recorded DVD.. In English and Mende with English subtitles.
Summary:	The film tells an amazing scholarly detective story reaching across hundreds of years and thousands of miles from 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of present-day Georgia. It recounts the even more remarkable saga of how African Americans retained links with their African past through the horrors of the middle passage, slavery, and segregation. The film dramatically demonstrates the contribution of contemporary scholarship to restoring what narrator Vertamae Grosvenor calls the "non-history" imposed on Africa Americans: "This is a story of memory, how the memory of a family was pieced together through a song with legendary powers to connect those who sang it with their roots."
Other form:	language you cry in. San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1999

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Call Number:	DVD M1671 .L364 2010
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