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Films
3 Films
Region
“West Africa”
x
Keywords
“MusicEthnomusicology”
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Series
“0”
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Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
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films with a digital version
1
short films
1
Region
South America
1
West Africa
3
x
Country
Brazil
1
Cote d’Ivoire
1
Ghana
2
Nigeria
1
Keywords
Collective / Community identity
1
Everyday Life
1
Memory
1
Migration
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
3
Popular Culture
1
Possession
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Ritual
2
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
Directors
Diaz, Juan Diego
1
Esteva, Jordi
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Pereira, Nilton
1
Speed, Frank
1
Series
not set
3
x
Country of production
Brazil
1
Côte d’Ivoire
1
Spain
1
United Kingdom
1
Year of production
1984
1
2015
1
2017
1
Colour / Black and white
Film list
Komian
2015
72
‘
Directed by
Jordi Esteva
.
Four years after the filming of “Return to the Land of Souls”, about the rituals of trance and possession, the narrator travels to Ivory Coast in search of a priestess possessed by the Spirit of
West Africa
Possession
Ritual
Music / Ethnomusicology
Sons of the Moon
1984
25
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Deirdre LaPin
.
In isolated mountain hamlets in Nigeria’s Jos Plateau the Ngas have traditionally observed the movements of the moon in the night sky. The moon is a key symbol in Ngas cosmology, believed to
West Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Music / Ethnomusicology
Everyday Life
Ritual
Tabom in Bahia
2017
52
‘
Directed by
Juan Diego Diaz
Nilton Pereira
.
There is a small community in Ghana who identify as Brazilians. Their name is the Tabom. They are the descendants of former enslaved Africans and creoles who resettled from Bahia to Ghana during the
South America
West Africa
Music / Ethnomusicology
Collective / Community identity
Memory
Migration
Popular Culture
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage