Ali Farka Touré - "Springing from the Roots".

Format:

Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural anthropology.

Blues.

Africa.

Malians.

(1939), Ali Farka Touré,.

Local Subjects:

Cultural anthropology.

Blues.

Africa.

Malians.

(1939), Ali Farka Touré,.

Genre:

Documentary

Physical Description:

1 online resource (53 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 1999.

Language Note:

In Bambara.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

"What does the word blues mean?" Asks the man who, throughout his dignified career as a musician-farmer, has been one of its most brilliant practitioners. By way of inauguration as much as invitation, the camera in 'Ali Farka Toure: ça coule de source' embarks on a trip round the Malian guitarist’s world: either solo or surrounded by his family, in Niafunké and Bakamo. Here, Ali Farka Touré celebrates the roots of blues music before anything African, echoing its abnormal passages on the neck of his six-string because "the fingers are the only ones who speak." From his first djerkel – monochord Songhai violin – made from an old tin of sardines to the guitar that later lead him to three Grammy Awards, this film shows a free man whose art find its source in the languor of the Niger River, the rhythms of the neighboring Tuaregs and in the spirits of nature. Jeanne Lacaille

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed July 15, 2024).