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Listen to the silence : a film about African cross rhythms as seen through Ghanian music / Loke Film ; written and produced by Peter Bischoff.
LIBRA VHS Music Videorecording 257
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Ghana.
- Music.
- Highlife (Music).
- Folk music.
- Ghana.
- Folk music--Ghana.
- Highlife (Music)--Ghana.
- Musical meter and rhythm.
- Ethnic music recordings--Ghana.
- Local Subjects:
- Ethnic music recordings--Ghana.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (approximately 33 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Title on container: Listening to the silence : African cross rhythms
- Listening to the silence : African cross rhythms
- African cross rhythms
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities and Sciences [distributor], [1996]
- System Details:
- VHS [NTSC]
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Drawing from the sounds and rhythms of nature and of daily tasks, Ghanian music values the silences as well as the beats, using silences for cross-rhythms both in traditional music on local instruments and in highlife on modern-day instruments. Shown are children's music, formal and informal dance, and music from a funeral; shown are Ewe, Ashanti, Ga, and Frafra peoples.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Brian Patterson; assistance from John Collins.
- Credits:
- Photography, Adam Schmedes; interviews, Peter Bischoff, Adam Schmedes; editing advisor, Adam Schmedes; on-line editing and fimal mix, Jes Paul, Soren Tarp.
- Notes:
- Video release of a 1996 Danish film.
- "FFH 6434"--Cassette label and container.
- OCLC:
- 42501649
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