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Jazz Cosmopolitanism In Accra Series. / producer, Steven Feld.
- Format:
- Video
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Ghana--Accra--20th century.
- Music.
- Jazz--Ghana--Accra.
- Jazz.
- Ghana--Accra.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video (300 min.)) : sound, color
- System Details:
- digital
- data file
- Summary:
- Five one-hour video collaborative documentaries (two with additional shorts) reveal Accra's resonances with jazz histories, styles, and performance practices ranging from New Orleans to bebop and the avant-garde, featuring famed percussionist Guy Warren/Ghanaba, multi-instrumentalist, afrifone inventor, and sound sculptor Nii Noi Nortey, percussionist and guitarist Nii Otoo Annan, the horn honking La Drivers Union Por Por Group, and master puppeteer J.C. Abbey. Films in the Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra series are: Hallelujah! (60 min, 2009); Accra Trane Station: The Music and Art of Nii Noi Nortey (60 min, 2009), Includes the short film From Accra to Santa Fe (18 min, 2009); A Por Por Funeral for Ashirifie (60 min, 2009); The Story of Por-Por (60 min, 2013), Includes the short film M.V. Labadi (20 min, 2013); J.C. Abbey, Ghana's Puppeteer (55 min, 2016).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Joseph B. Glossberg Fund.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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