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Includes one 82 minute DVD and one CD of notes, maps and photos in PDF format!
"...In this current YouTube age, when almost any kind of video material can be found online—including countless music clips from The Gambia—Roderic Knight's collection remains a refreshing and important resource. It not only provides an in-depth window into the breadth of music making in The Gambia in 1970, when Knight was carrying out his Ph.D. dissertation research, but it also provides a model framework for discussions about how ethno-musicologists go about their business."
Ethnomusicology, Winter 2008
Film, Video, and Multimedia Reviews
These films, including 18 separate events, made at the beginning of the Super 8 era with a silent camera and separate tape recorder, and at the end, with a sound-sync camera, feature performances by some of The Gambia's legendary Mandinka musicians. With a single roving camera, ethnomusicologist Roderic Knight captures the enthusiasm and artistry of jaliyaa, one of Africa's classic genres, and several other genres, including tantango drumming, a style that is today being eclipsed by the djembe.
Digital technology has enabled several enhancements, and most importantly, the sound-synchronization of many scenes that were not in sync in the original VHS release which has been unavailable for many years. In the enclosed PDF booklet which comes on a separate CD-R, Prof. Knight provides additional photographs, maps, extensive explanatory and technical notes for every scene, and all song texts and conversations in both Mandinka and English. This DVD-R "Mande Music and Dance" is a rich and vital document of the traditions of the Gambian Mandinka.
Roderic Knight is Professor of Ethnomusicology at Oberlin College
Contents of the DVD-R revised edition of Music of the Mande, Parts I, II, and III, with digital editing by Elio Trabal
I. Music of the Warriors, Hunters, and Ordinary People 12:38
II.Professional Music: Mandinka Jaliyaa with the Kora 38:48
Bai Konteh, Jali Mori Suso, Amadu Bansang Jobarteh, Jali Nyama Suso, Suntu Suso, Masireng Kuyateh, a kullio, kora making.
III.Gambian Tantango Drumming 31:31
Lenjengo/Seruba, Nyaka Julo, Kanyelango, Nyoboringo (wrestling), Kankurango
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This is the consumer version that contains no public performance rights.
NOTE: This DVD is recorded in NTSC. European buyers will need multi-standard playback equipment to view this program.
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