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Songs of the adventurers / produced and directed by Gei Zantzinger.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center VHS Music Videorecording 2
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Sotho
- Subjects (All):
- Folk poetry, Sotho.
- Sotho (African people)--Music.
- Sotho (African people).
- Lesotho--Social conditions.
- Lesotho.
- Social conditions.
- Ethnic music recordings--Lesotho.
- Ethnic music recordings, Sotho (African people).
- Local Subjects:
- Ethnic music recordings--Lesotho.
- Ethnic music recordings, Sotho (African people).
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (47 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Devault, Pa] : Constant Springs Productions, [1987]
- System Details:
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Depicts the poetic songs, known as difela, of Sotho migrant workers, who must go from their homes in Lesotho to work in the mines in the Republic of South Africa.
- Participant:
- David Coplan ; recitations in English, Welcome, Msomi ; reciters, Molefi Motsoahae ... [et al.].
- Credits:
- Camera, Thomas Ott ; sound, Gei Zantzinger ; anthropologists, David Coplan, Georgia McMillen ; editor, Ben Levin.
- Notes:
- English narration with songs in Sotho with English subtitles.
- VHS
- OCLC:
- 22651761
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