Toggle navigation
RAI FILM
Sales
Films with video
new
Film Sales public page
2023
public page
WordPress
Site
log in
found one film
Region
"East Africa"
x
Country
"Senegal"
x
Keywords
"Political Activists"
x
films with a digital version
1
Section
Sales
1
Status
films with no status
0
show deleted films
0
show none-public films
0
show public and none-public films
1
show public films
1
Region
East Africa
1
x
Country
Senegal
1
x
Keywords
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Political Activists
1
x
Resistance
1
Social Change
1
Directors
Strasse, Cornelia
1
Series
not set
1
Country of production
Senegal
1
Switzerland
1
Year of production
2013
1
Film Festival Year
not set
1
Event type
not set
1
Festival Prize Category
not set
1
Review Status
not set
1
videoScreenRatio
Price code - 1,2,3 or 4
or none-empty is required for Sales dropdown to show,
DVD and ASP Stream price depends on this.
1
1
Film
Messages by Music - Senegal in Transition
2013
76
'
Directed by
Cornelia Strasse
.
The traditional musicians in Senegal were in charge of retaining the history of their ethnic group, along with ways of thinking and behaving. Their aim was to conserve the society. Nowadays the griots have lost much of their importance. Their world is vanishing, but not their methods. Awadi, one of the first and best known rappers in Western Africa, picked up the method of the griots to launch his message to the people. But unlike the griots, his aim is to change society. Awadi is fighting Pan-Africanism, a movement which can’t be understood without having colonialism and its still lasting after-effects in mind. This films offers an insight into contemporary Senegalese society, reflecting its ethnic, linguistic, religious and musical diversity.
East Africa
Music / Ethnomusicology
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
Social Change
Political Activists
Resistance