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Song of Africa / African Film Productions present ; directed by Emil Nofal.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 1765
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musical films.
- Zulu (African people)--Music.
- Zulu (African people).
- Zulu (African people)--Drama.
- Black people--South Africa--Music.
- Black people.
- Black people--South Africa--Drama.
- Music--South Africa--20th century.
- Music.
- South African drama.
- Jazz--South Africa.
- Jazz.
- African Americans--Music--Influence.
- African Americans.
- Jazz--Influence.
- Black people in motion pictures.
- African Americans--Music.
- South Africa--Drama.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--In motion pictures.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Music.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (59 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- [Vancouver, B.C.] : Villon Films, [19-?]
- System Details:
- DVD.
- Summary:
- In this all Black production directed by an Afrikaner a Zulu band leader, Daniel Makiza, returns to his village with a gramophone and musical instruments determined to start a Zulu jazz band. He takes his band to the city where their jazz contest performance constitutes the body of the film. This film, produced at the inception of apartheid, contains many of the cliches and self-delusions that were to make apartheid tenable. The cosmetic world depicted is completely in harmony with Afrikaner Nationalist philosophy, a mass fantasy indulged by thousands of Afrikaners.
- Participant:
- Narrator: Frank Secker.
- Cast: Joseph Muso, Mabel Magada, Albertina Temba, John Lekgeth, Daniel Moshesh, George Mabuza, Malome Ramagkopa, Beryl Tshabalala, Jarvis Dicimelo, Hessy Kerry, Emily Koenane.
- Credits:
- Photography, Dave Millen ; music, Charles Berman ; music performed by the African Inkspots and the Black Broadway Boys.
- Notes:
- Original production: c1951.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- OCLC:
- 133785109
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