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The language you cry in.

Title
The language you cry in.
Publication
San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Toepke, Alvaro.
  • Serrano, Angel (Film producer)
  • Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae.
  • California Newsreel (Firm)
Description
1 videocassette (53 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.
Summary
" ... traces the history of this song, a burial hymm of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast more than two hundred years ago"--Container.
Series Statement
Library of African cinema
Uniform Title
Library of African cinema (Videocassette)
Alternative Title
Story of a Mende song
Subject
  • Folk songs, Mende
  • Mende (African people) > Funeral customs and rites
  • Gullahs > Georgia > Music
  • Funeral music
  • African Americans > Relations with Africans
  • Burial > Sierra Leone
  • Burial
  • Gullahs
  • Chansons mendé
  • Rites et cérémonies funéraires > Rites et cérémonies > Sierra Leone
  • Georgia
  • Sierra Leone
Genre/Form
  • Videocassettes.
  • Documentary television programs.
  • Documentary films.
  • Historical films.
  • Music.
  • Documentaires télévisés.
Note
  • Title from container.
Credits (note)
  • Producer/Directors, Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano; written by Alvaro Toepke; narrator, Vertamae Grosvener.
System Details (note)
  • VHS.
Language (note)
  • In English and Mende, with English subtitles.
OCLC
  • ocm41180389
  • 41180389
  • SCSB-1146820
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library