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  1. Music of Vietnam (1966 Film)

    Director
    Robert Garfias; Harold Schultz
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In this film Tran Van Khe, a musicologist responsible for a number of informative works on the music of Vietnam, plays a short piece on the dan tranh, a 16-string zither. Item number: HE 299. - USES:...

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  2. Sacred Harp Singers (1984 Video)

    Director
    Mark Brice
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 85 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A moving portrait of harp singers Leonard and Mazine Lacy. Sacred harp music is a kind of harmonised plainsong practiced in rural America. This film was shot in Sand Mountain, Alabama.

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  3. Village Life and Music in Hungary (198 Video)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Folk songs, dances and instrumental music from Hungarian villages, paralleling gypsy music.

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  4. Walking Away with the Music (1989 Video)

    Director
    Shafeeq Vallani
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

    Explores the cultural approation of black music and dance, focusing the the WOMAD world music festival in 1988.

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  5. Namekas: Music in Lake Chambri (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Les McLaren
    Producer
    Les McLaren
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the people of three villages on an island in Lake Chambri, adjacent to the Sepik river. Featured are the men’s sacred paired flutes, flute ensembles, slit drums and voice masks, which all have...

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  6. Silk and Strings: Taiwan (1994 Video)

    Director
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Producer
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £29.95 (+VAT +p&p)

    Chinese silk-stringed zithers and folk dances, including a performance of a Peking Opera. Also shows village life, the Chinese type of Buddhist prayers, and temple architecture, painting and calligraphy.

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  7. Land of Smiles, The: Thailand (1994 Video)

    Director
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Producer
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £29.95 (+VAT +p&p)

    Thai folk songs, dances and a performance of the classical Ramakien dance drama. Also shows temple ceremonies and the monastic architecture, religious paintings as well as the Buddhist way of life in the...

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  8. Kama Wosi: Music in the Trobriand Islands (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Led McLaren
    Producer
    Led McLaren
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Set in three inland villages on the largest of the Trobriand Islands. The poetry of songs and the art of singing are a major part of the Trobriand aesthetic traditions. Through the translation of song...

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  9. Painted Ballad of India (198 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Art; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the art of painting the eight-metre long horizontal scrolls in a desert village in Rajasthan, with a ballad singer telling the tale of the folk hero Pabuji. The moves to a hamlet of traditional...

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  10. Compay Segundo

    Subject
    HISTORY & POLITICS CATALOGUES; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 min), £17.99

    Compay Segunda was filmed, in his nineties, singing his Cuban songs as he has done in Havana since the 1920s. His songs tell of promises of a brave new world following the revolution and life in Cuba before...

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