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The language you cry in / a film from California Newsreel ; producer/directors, Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Mende
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Georgia.
- Burial--Sierra Leone.
- Burial.
- Ethnomusicology--Sierra Leone.
- Ethnomusicology.
- Folk songs, Mende.
- Gullahs--Music.
- Gullahs.
- Mende (African people).
- Sierra Leone--Music.
- Sierra Leone.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (53 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1998.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Traces the history of a burial song of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States over two hundred years ago, and preserved among the Gullah people there. In the 1930s a pioneering Black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin, and in the 1990s scholars Joe Opala and Cynthia Schmidt discovered that the song was still remembered in a remote village in Sierra Leone. Dramatically demonstrates how African Americans retained links with their African past, and concludes with the visit of the Gullah family which had preserved the song to the Mende village, where villagers re-enact the ancient burial rites for them.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed March 29, 2016).
- OCLC:
- 823895433
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