The language you cry in / a film from California Newsreel ; writer, Alvaro Toepk ; producer/directors, Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano.

Traces the history of a burial song of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States over two hundred years ago, and preserved among the Gullah people there. In the 1930s a pioneering Black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin, and...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	California Newsreel (Firm)
Other Authors:	Toepke, Alvaro Serrano, Angel (Film producer)
Language:	English Mende
Language of the Original:	Mende
Language and/or Writing System:	In English and Mende with English subtitles.
Published:	[San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, 1998.
Subjects:	Mende (African people) Folk songs, Mende. Gullahs > Music. African Americans > Georgia. African Americans > Race identity. Ethnomusicology > Sierra Leone. Burial > Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone > Music. Documentary films.
Genre:	Music. Documentary films.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Video DVD

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