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The Language You Cry In
Title
The Language You Cry In [electronic resource (video)] / California Newsreel (Firm).
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2012], c1998.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (52 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on September 03, 2012.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Closed-captioned.
Portions in other languages with English subtitles.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
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, they also sent a trove of cultural information that had been passed from Mende mothers to their daughters for generations-including a particular song that had been carefully preserved because it was used in funeral rites. With the help of anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, linguists, and the singers themselves, the "nonsense lyrics" of the song found in Georgia were identified as those of the Mende dirge.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English; Multiple languages
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Contents
A Story of Memory (2:32)
Music in Harris Neck, 1931 (2:53)
The Gullah Connection (3:12)
Welcome Home Gullahs (2:52)
Origin's of Amelia's Song (2:47)
A Song of Ancestry, Senehun Ngola, 1989 (3:42)
Completing the Puzzle of Amelia Dawley's Song (4:56)
End of the Tenjami Ceremony (1:57)
Mende Song in America (2:07)
Tracing Silent History (2:25)
Price of War in Africa (2:32)
Beyond the Pain (3:04)
Getting to Know Sierra Leon (2:22)
Walls of Pain and Sorrow in Africa (4:17)
United by an Ancient African Song (5:19)
Memory is Power (3:27)
Credits: The Language You Cry In (0:58)
Videorecording number
49758 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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