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Too Close to Heaven: A History of Black Gospel Music (3 Parts) (1996 Video)

Director

Alan Lewens

Producer

Leo St Clair

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassettes. VHS. col. 180 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (inclusive)

Professor Horace Boyer traces the development of gospel music, using footage of live performances and interviews, from it West African roots and the spirituals sung by slaves in the American South through to...

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Under African Skies (5 Parts) (1985 Video)

Producer

Mark Kidel; Michael Macintyre; Michael Raeburn; Richard Taylor

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 60 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £225.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series looking at the diverse music of Africa: where it comes from, what it means and where it is going. 1 (producer Michael Raeburn): Among all English-speaking African countries, the music of Zimbabwe has...

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (1986)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 108 minutes), €18.99

DIVINING was Judith Jamison’s first major work as a choreographer for Alvin Ailey Dance Company. The dance evokes a strong feeling for African tribal ritual and is set to hauntingly rhythmic drum music....

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International Women’s Day Concert 2018 (2018)

aka: BBC Concert Orchestra and Jane Glover: International Women’s Day Concert

Subject

Music; Women’s studies

A group of academics spent 12 months tracking down the lost music of five forgotten women composers, who range from an 18th-century Viennese child prodigy to an award-winning African-American symphonist. All...

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Tunisian Victory (1943 Video)

aka: Why we Fight - Tunisian Victory

Producer

Roy Boulting; Frank Capra; Hugh Stewart

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 75 minutes), £15.99

Official British war film. Covers period from 8th November 1942 to May 1943 - the invasion of North Africa to the fall of Tunis. In 1942 the Allies launched the largest amphibious assault of the war thus far...

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Black History: From Civil War Through Today (2008)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1080 minutes), £39.99

DISC 1 IN THE BEGINNING The Civil War - A vivid dramatization of the war which shaped the social landscape for black Americans for centuries to come. The Plantation System - A stark portrayal of plantation...

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