The language you cry in, the story of a Mende song, produced & directed by Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano
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The language you cry in, the story of a Mende song, produced & directed by Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano
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eng
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videorecording
Main title
The language you cry in
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152674109
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produced & directed by Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano
Runtime
52
Sub title
the story of a Mende song
Summary
In English and Mende with English subtitlesTraces the history of a burial song of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States over two hundred years ago, and preserved among the Gullah people there. In the 1930s a pioneering Black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin, and in the 1990s scholars Joe Opala and Cynthia Schmidt discovered that the song was still remembered in a remote village in Sierra Leone. Dramatically demonstrates how African Americans retained links with their African past, and concludes with the visit of the Gullah family which had preserved the song to the Mende village, where villagers re-enact the ancient burial rites for them
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live action
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Story of a Mende song
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