When animals sing and spirits dance : Gule Wamkulu : the great dance of the Chewa people of Malawi / Kungoni Centre of Culture & Art presents ; filmed by Claude Boucher Chisale.

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"This documentary ... presents a collection of 160 Gule characters filmed by Claude Boucher Chisale over 25 years (1988-2012) in the central Malwian areas of Mua, Mtakataka, Kapiri and Golomoti. It reveals Gule Wamkulu as the storehouse of Chewa culture, showing the richness, creativity and original...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	KuNgoni Centre of Culture and Art (Publisher)
Other Authors:	Boucher, Claude, 1941- (Film director, director of photography.)
Language:	English
Published:	[Malawi] : Kungoni Production, [2012]
Subjects:	Chewa (African people) > Rites and ceremonies. Masks, Chewa > Malawi. Songs, Chewa > Malawi. Dance > Malawi. Oral tradition > Malawi. Documentary films. Nonfiction films. Feature films. Ethnographic films. Filmed dance.
Genre:	Documentary films. Nonfiction films. Feature films. Ethnographic films. Filmed dance.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:	Kasiya Maliro the great mother of Gule Wamkulu : 160 of her children filmed in action. Gule Wamkulu : the great dance of the Chewa people of Malawi.
Format:	Video DVD

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