| Hip Hop and Music Collections
November is Hip Hop History Month and
TWN celebrates with the release of Living
the Hiplife, a music documentary about
the influence of
hip hop in the music scene in Accra, Ghana.
We also feature two new releases in our Music
Collection.
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| Hip Hop Collection
NEW Living the Hiplife Available on
DVD
This film is a musical portrait of street
life in urban West Africa. It follows the
birth of Hiplife music, a mix
of various African musical forms and American
hip hop, in Accra, Ghana. Archival footage
and hip hop music
videos are remixed with interviews and the
daily lives of rap artists. We follow Reggie
Rockstone, the Godfather of Hiplife in the
founding of the musical movement, as well as
the Mobile Boys a group of aspiring rap
artists as they try to make it in the music
business. With humor and personality these
characters move across the political and
musical landscape of urban Ghana.
"...cleverly portrays contemporary West
African expressive culture. It is especially
important because it shows the importance of
Pan-Africanism and African Diasporic artistic
and political connections to people in
Africa."--Chinua Achebe, Nigerian
Author
"...thoughtful and visually exciting at the
same time. It is a musical documentary that
gives a powerful sense of life in
contemporary Africa."--John Akomfrah,
Filmmaker and founder of Black Audio
Collective, Smoking Dogs Films Founder of
Black Audio Collective
Jesse W. Shipley |
documentary | 61 minutes | 2007 | $225
view
in catalog
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Also Available
She
Rhymes Like a Girl
Scene
Not Heard
La
Bruja: A Witch from the Bronx
Breakin'
In: The Making of a Hip Hop Dancer
Hip
Hop SP
| Music Collection
NEW Ritual Rhythms: Candombe Available on
DVD
This documentary explores the history and
modern reality of candombe, the drum music of
Uruguay's black parade bands. It is a way of
life that was born in the musical gatherings
of slaves in urban marketplaces and plazas.
Despite persistent racism,
the 200,000 Uruguayans of African descent
experience candombe as a way of life, as part
of the cast of characters that inhabit the
tenements of Montevideo's Reus and Ansina
neighborhoods, where parents rock cradles
with drummed lullabies, and children learn to
play drums on oil cans. Moving from riveting
musical performances to detailed discussions
of the history of slavery and the historical
development of candombe, Ritual
Rhythms is an
exciting and informative introduction to
candombe, the music of Afro-Uruguay.
Mabel Maio |
documentary | 48 minutes | 1999 | $175
view
in catalog
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NEW El Charango Available on
DVD
This short documentary is about a little
instrument, a large silver mine and the
highest city in the world. Cerro Rico in
Potosi, Bolivia, was discovered by Spanish
conquistadors in 1545, who enslaved the local
indigenous people. It is said that 8 million
people, including African slaves, died in the
mines of this mountain while providing Spain
with immense wealth. The Spanish culture
spread into Potosi, and the local people
became aware of something they had never seen
or heard before: a stringed instrument.
Forbidden from ever playing the Spanish
guitar, the miners copied it and created the
charango. The story of the charango
symbolizes the larger struggle for human
rights and a quest to keep traditional
culture alive among indigenous people.
*SilverDocs, Silver Spring, Maryland,
2006
Jim Virga & Tula Goenka |
documentary | 22 minutes | 2006 | $175
view
in catalog
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Also Available
Afro-Punk
The
World Saxophone Quartet
Inside
Out in the Open
Musica
Percussion,
Impressions and Reality
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| TWN Thanks
TWN is supported in
part by The New York State Council on the
Arts, The
National Endowment for the Arts, The New York
City
Department of Cultural Affairs, The Ford
Foundation, The North Star Fund, The Funding
Exchange, Manhattan Neighborhood
Network , as well as individual donors.
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organization dedicated to fostering the
creation,
appreciation, and dissemination of
independent media
by and about people of color.
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