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Maloya Dousman.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Africa.
- Africans.
- Music history.
- Reunions.
- Ethnomusicology.
- Musical performances.
- Local Subjects:
- Africa.
- Africans.
- Music history.
- Reunions.
- Ethnomusicology.
- Musical performances.
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (58 minutes)
- Other Title:
- FV Maloya Dousman
- Place of Publication:
- Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 1994.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- In Romanian.
- In French.
- Original language in English.
- Original language in Romanian.
- Original language in French.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- For those who have discovered the Reunionese maloya of Danyèl Waro and René Lacaille in recent years, the film written and directed by Jean-Paul Roig will be an ideal source of information. It provides historical (the end of slavery on December 20, 1848; the anniversary only became a public holiday in 1983), political (the role played by the Communist Party of Reunion and elected representatives such as Paul Vergès and Elie Hoarau) and sociological (the island's interbreeding with Madagascan, African and Tamil descendants; diverse spirituality with the influence of Catholicism, animism and Taoism) references.) The film is fascinating for its intellectual openness, its lessons in wisdom and the great humanity of the participants (“you have to dance and sing when someone has died” declares the founder of the Lélé troupe; this is the sacred maloya of the so-called “kabaré” services). It's also musically fascinating, with its responsorial singing and polyrhythmic percussion instruments (the roulèr - an oxhide roller on which the musician sits - the Sati, the kayanb, the pikèr, the Bobre - a berimbau). An outcast music despised by the masters and then by the bourgeoisie, Maloya only really came out of a certain clandestinity in 1959 with the release of two records by the PC Réunionnais and the formation of the 18-musician Lélé troupe in 1977. Reception of the genre evolved rapidly and positively, even in metropolitan France (“at first, maloya people were not to be messed with, maloya was despised, today the most respectable people dance maloya” says the wife of the elderly leader of Lo Rwa Kaf). Philippe Lesage
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed July 15, 2024).
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