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African guitar : solo fingerstyle guitar music, composers and performers of Congo/Zaire, Uganda, Central African Republic, Malawi, Namibia, and Zambia : audio-visual field recordings, 1966-1993, by Gerhard Kubik.
LIBRA Music Videorecording 585 video + Booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Guitar music--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Guitar music.
- Popular music--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Popular music.
- Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Ethnic music recordings--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Local Subjects:
- Ethnic music recordings--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
- Genre:
- Guitar music.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. + 1 booklet (79 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Fingerstyle guitar music
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Vestapol Productions ; [Cambridge, MA]: [Distributed by Rounder Records], [1995]
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- African guitar presents cultural anthropologist Gerhard Kubik's personal field recordings from 1966-1993. This video offers a rare view into the rich textures of African fingerstyle guitar music.
- Contents:
- Mwenda Jean Bosco: Twende kwetu nyumbani
- Ni furaha
- Masanga njia
- Bombalaka - Bibi mupenzi
- Faustino Okello: Matide aboyo
- Loskel ucyakewaki kongo
- Pierre Gwa: Aba ri kwala
- Babuti mwana lolo ya temba
- Ndiango
- Ikwela
- Daniel Kachamba: Dolosina lumba
- Mimi kwenda nairobi
- Dzana lija tinali tonse
- N.C.
- Moya Aliya Malamusi: Make solofina
- Chechure
- Hauyani demonstration
- Ndaona ine ndilibe mau
- Erasmus N. Ndara: Engelika ghapumura munu wendi
- Tango paya
- Mose Yotamu: Mwenaku mama
- Nani anyamata mukufuna ncito
- Lead guitar variations
- Ove tata! Ove mama!
- Participant:
- Mwenda Jean Bosco ; Faustino Okello ; Pierre Gwa ; Daniel Kachamba ; Moya Aliya Malamusi ; Erasmus N. Ndara ; Mose Yotamu.
- Credits:
- Layout and editing: Wolfgang Bachschwell, Gerhard Kubik.
- Notes:
- Originally produced by Vestapol Productions in 1994.
- ISBN:
- 1884691161
- OCLC:
- 33088396
- Publisher Number:
- 13017 Vestapol Productions
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