An informative directory to videos featuring traditional and popular African music, dance, drama, rituals, oral tradition, storytelling, games, healing practices, carnivals, work activities, pageantry, daily life, athletic performance, folklore, ethnographic studies, women's studies, children's videos, creative projects, and more. Includes selected videos of the African Diaspora showing significant links to Africa - jazz, blues, gospel, Candomble, steel pan, calypso, reggae, samba, Santeria, rap, zydeco, and related subjects. Over 68 countries are represented. Striking illustrations by Dean Alexander are included. Contains a Names Index, Distributors Index, 37 page Subject Index, and a Videos Format chart. All videos could be purchased at the time of writing.
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"...it should be acquired by any library dealing with video, Africa or performance." AFRICAN RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION -- Cambridge University, No 74, 1997
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Carol Lems-Dworkin is an Africanist author, musicologist, former concert pianist, professor, lecturer, and piano teacher. She has published three African-related books, and made six piano recordings of Bach soon to be released on the Internet. She holds two degrees from Northwestern University, graduated "with honors and distinction," and is a member of the following honorary academic societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi (Science), Sigma Alpha Iota (Honorary Member - Music), and Pi Kappa Lambda (Graduate-level - music). She also received an Honorary Graduate Certificate in African Studies from the Program of African Studies of Northwestern University. At one time she studied with famed Anthropologist, Melville J. Herskovits, and Ethnomusicologist, Richard Waterman. In recent years she has specialized in the works of Scott Joplin, "The King of Ragtime," and gives regular lecture-performances on his life and music. Lems-Dworkin also lectures and conducts courses on African music and Black music of the New World.
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