VIDEOS WE SAW IN CLASS (in order of appearance):

LISTENING TO THE SILENCE: African Cross-Rhythms (33 mins)
An insightful view of polyrhythmic music and dance in Ghana. Wonderful vignette of postal workers stamping letters with tremendous virtuosity.

AFRICA/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY (27 min.)
African Geography, fly-over of the entire continent. Highlights the diverse landforms, climates, vegetation and animals of Africa.

AFRICA BEFORE THE EUROPEANS, 100-1500 (26 min)
Bantu-speaking peoples--Migrations. Blacks--South Africa. Africa--History--To 1498.

ANGANO....ANGANO TALES FROM MADAGASCAR (64 min)
Recounts the founding myths of Malagasy culture, the creation of Man and Woman, the origin of rice cultivation and the reason for animal sacrifice.

BLACK ATHENA (52 min)
An account of the controversy surrounding Cornell University scholar Dr. Bernal and his theories about the African origins of Western Civilization.

YOU, AFRICA! YOUSSOU N'DOUR AND SUPER ETOILE: THE AFRICAN TOUR (43 min)
Senegalese super-star Youssou n'dour and his group tour Africa with a mission

DIVINE HORSEMEN: THE LIVING GODS OF HAITI
Deals with the rituals of the Rada, Petro and Congo cults of Haiti, whose origins stem from Africa. The devotees serve the cosmic powers by means of prayer, offerings, song and dance. Introduces a pantheon of spirits who communicate to the worshipper all life wisdom. The direct manifestation, or communication, is through spirit "possession" as the spirit enters and rides a person as a "Divine Horseman." Filmed between 1947-1951 by Maya Deren, after she had been initiated into the religion as a priestess and edited posthumously by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito.

KONKOMBE: The Nigerian Pop Music Scene (SHANACHIE) Interviews and footage of many prominent African musicians: Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, etc.

OLIVER JONES IN AFRICA (53 min) : Canadian jazz musician Oliver Jones in a revealing documentary filmed in West Africa.

EGUNGUN documentary (not released commercially)
Travelling through a village in Yorubaland with a video camera during Egungun ceremony. Probably in Erin Oshun.

THE TRIBAL MIND; written and hosted by Gwynne Dyer. (52 min). An interesting interpretation of South African history.

OGUN (Cuba/Gloria Rolando) Cuban version of orisha worship; compare with Yoruba religion

KEITA : THE HERITAGE OF THE GRIOT. Un film de Daní Kouyaté.
A dramatisation of the 13th century West Africa Sundjata Epic is paralleled by the story of a young boy who is learning the history of his family from a griot, or storyteller, who arrives mysteriously in his home. The film opposes Afrocentric and Eurocentric education as the boy is caught between his fascination to understand the "meaning of his name", and the demands of a modern, Westernised Africa. In French and Jula with English subtitles.

YORUBA PERFORMANCE (25 min)
Filmed among the Ijebu-Yoruba, this video documents a series of performances including: 1) Young female initiates dancing for Olomitutu, the deity of "cool waters"; 2) Egungun masking in honor of twins; 3) Egungun masking for the collective ancest ors during an annual rally; 4) Dancing of elders during an Oshugbo festival; 5) Ifa divination ceremony--Itefa; 6) Agemo masking honoring the founders of towns and markets; 7) Orisha initiation ceremony--marking the heads of devotees; 8) Jigbo masking for forest spirits; and 9) Okosi--boat regatta on the lagoon.

Series: THE HUMAN RACE/ THE TRIBAL MIND part 2
South Africa isn't the only society where racial and tribal identity have profoundly marked the way people live together; it's just one striking example. Against a background of violence, some South Africans are rising above old tribal reflexes as they struggle towards democracy. South Africa may provide a model for the world where the tribal politics of narrow self-interest continue to be destructive.

NOT SHOWN IN CLASS:

Baka, people of the forest / produced by the National Geographic Society and WQED Pittsburgh. (60 min)

W�nd K�uni - Le don de Dieu ; un film produit par la Republique de Haute-Volta ; (70 min.)
Village communities--Africa--Drama

DJEMBEFOLA/ MAMADY KEITA
Documentary. Djembe and Guinean music

*Ballet National du Guinea

*Maluala

*Nigerian Bat� ensemble�Egungun

The Seven ages of music: the magic of African music (52 min)
South African music history � clumsy psuedo-documentary; staged.

Title: All eyes on Africa (60 min) written and directed by Clem Marshall

An African community: the Masai / produced by Frank Gardonyi and Clifford Janofe (17 min)

The Baule (15 min.)
The Baule people of the Ivory Coast, Social life and customs

Middle East & Africa JVC video series on World Music and Dance

ON RESERVE IN LIBRARY:

BOOKS

Chopi musicians, their music, poetry, and instruments

Da Capo guide to contemporary African music

Drums of Vodou / Lois Wilcken, featuring Frisner Augustin.

Let the inside be sweet : the interpretation of music event among the Kpelle of Liberia / Ruth M. Stone.

African music in Ghana. Music Stacks Call Number: ML3760 N6

Popular musics of the non-Western world : an introductory survey / Peter Manuel.

Salsa! : Havana heat, Bronx beat / Hernando Calvo Ospina ; translator, Nick Caistor.

Tiv song / Charles Keil.

World beat : a listener's guide to contemporary world music on CD / Peter Spencer.

African civilisations in the New World, Bastide, Roger

Flash of the spirit : African and Afro-American art and philosophy
Thompson, Robert Farris.

Africans in the Americas : a history of the Black diaspora, Conniff, Michael L.

VIDEOS

AIDS IN AFRICA (videocassette)

CD's

Kronos Quartet. Pieces of Africa 1992

LP's

Mukanda na makisi/Angola
Circumcision school and mask. Museum f�r V�lkerkunde Berlin, [1981] : 2 sound discs : analog, mono. ; 12 in. + 1 booklet

[Documentary vs narrative vs setting]