The language you cry in

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Traces the history of a Mende burial song 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 s...

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Main Authors: Sevilla, Leandro (Composer), Masciadri, Marcelo (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Inko Producciones, Universidad de Alicante. Taller de Imagen, California Newsreel (Firm)
Other Authors: Toepke, Alvaro (Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Film editor), Serrano, Angel (Film producer) (Director, Producer, Film editor), Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae (Narrator), Landazuri, A. (Cinematographer, Film editor)
Format: Video
Language:English
Mende
Published: [San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, 1998.
Subjects:
Mende (African people)
Folk songs, Mende.
Gullahs > Music.
African Americans > Georgia.
African Americans > Race identity.
Ethnomusicology > Sierra Leone.
Burial > Sierra Leone.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone > Music.
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Emerson

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Call Number: DVD 3105
PN1995.9.A43 T64 1998

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