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Bidla / A film by Amanda Eke.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--Malta.
- Popular music.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (29 minutes)) : sound, color
- Place of Publication:
- [Eugene, Oregon] : Heritage Broadcasting Service, [2021]
- System Details:
- digital
- Summary:
- "Bidla" means "change" in Maltese. This film explores the controversial musical fusion of Ghana (traditional Maltese folk music) with hip-hop on the Mediterranean island of Malta, and through the lenses of hip-hop artists, cultural anthropologists, and traditionalists in the present day. The practitioners of the musical fusion argue that, although it began as an "underground" musical phenomenon, it has since emerged as a genre more popular than Ghana alone, and has the virtue of helping to keep Ghana alive, the latter otherwise tending to fade away at present. Traditionalists, in the contrary, reject the idea that traditional Maltese folk music should need help from a foreign genre to "justify" its continued existence.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed on May 7, 2025).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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