The language you cry in

The language you cry in / directed & produced by Alvaro Toepke & Angel Serrano ; written by Alvaro Toepke ; a co-production [of] Inko Producciones S.L. & Taller de Imagen de la Universidad de Alicante, S.A.

Spanning hundreds of years and thousands of miles, this program recounts the remarkable saga of how a nursery rhyme sung by the Gullah people of present-day Georgia was confirmed to be of African origin. When 18th-century slavers sent human cargo from Sierra Leone to America's coastal South, th...

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Other Authors: Toepke, Alvaro (Screenwriter), Opala, Joseph (Researcher), Schmidt, Cynthia E. (Researcher), Koroma, Tazieff (Researcher), Smart-Grosvenor, Vertamae (Narrator), Landázuri, Aníbal (director of photography.), Sevilla, Leandro (composer (expression)), Masciadri, Marcelo (composer (expression))
Format: Video
Language:English
Mende
Published: [San Francisco, Calif.] : [California Newsreel], 1998.
Series:Black studies in video
Subjects:
Mende (African people)
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans > Georgia.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Sierra Leone.
Ethnomusicology > Sierra Leone.
Burial > Sierra Leone.
Folk songs, Mende.
Gullahs > Music.
Funeral rites and ceremonies
African Americans
African Americans > Race identity
Burial
Ethnomusicology
Folk songs, Mende
Gullahs
Sierra Leone > Music.
Georgia
Sierra Leone
Documentary films.
documentary film.
Ethnographic films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Feature films
Internet videos
Documentary films
Nonfiction films
Music
Ethnographic films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Internet videos.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Films ethnographiques.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
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