Crossing over / script & direction, Christopher Laird, Wallace Bampoe-Addo ; producer, Christopher Laird ; produced by the National Film & Television Institute of Ghana and Banyan.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Laird, Christopher, director, producer, screenwriter.

Bampoe-Addo, Wallace, director, screenwriter.

Banyan Ltd., production company.

NAFTI of Ghana, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Highlife (Music)--Ghana.

Highlife (Music).

Calypso (Music)--Trinidad and Tobago.

Calypso (Music).

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (59 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Trinidad and Tobago : Banyan Productions, 1989.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Trinidadian calypso musician, Lancelot Layne, visits Ghana in Africa, the land of his ancestors, for the first time. Together with Ghanaian highlife musician Koo Nimo, they explore the roots of Highlife. The rhythms of the people, of Koo Nimo and his musicians, the music, the markets, brass bands and masqueraders set up reverberations for the Trinidadian that reach far back into his New World experience.

Contents:

Part one, Trinidad to Ghana

Part two, Ghana to Trinidad.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed August 15, 2016).

OCLC:

957520530