Youssou N'Dour & Sotigui Kouyaté : African storytellers : Return to Gorée [and] Les noms n'habitent nulle part = Names live nowhere / ArtMattan Productions presents a special 2-DVD set.

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Return to Gorée: A musical road movie that follows Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's historical journey tracing the trail left by slaves and the jazz music they invented. Youssou N'Dour's challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire of his own songs to perform a concert in Gorée, the isla...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: N'Dour, Youssou (Composer, Performer, Commentator)
Woitchik, Phillippe (Composer)
Raedemaeker, Anne-Françoise (Composer)
Corporate Authors: CAB Productions (Production company)
Iris Productions (Production company)
Dreampixies (Firm) (Production company)
Underworld Films (Belgium) (Production company)
Centre de l'audiovisuel à Bruxelles
Carré Noir RTBF Liège (Firm)
ArtMattan Productions (Issuing body)
Other Authors: Borgeaud, Pierre-Yves (Film director, Screenwriter)
Loreau, Dominique, 1955- (Film director, Film producer)
Haroun, Mahamat Saleh (Film director)
Gétaz, Emmanuel (Screenwriter)
Porchet, Jean-Louis (Film producer)
Ruey, Gérard (Film producer)
Genoud, Moncef
Ndiaye, Boubacar Joseph, 1922-2009
Muhammad, Idris, 1939-2014
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014
Kouyaté, Sotigui (Actor)
Sene, Momar Nar (Actor)
Baldé, Sékou (Actor)
Kaba, Assane (Actor)
Cottagnoud, Camille (director of photography.)
Grammont, Etienne de (director of photography.)
Batigne, Marc-André (director of photography.)
Gibel, Daniel (Editor of moving image work)
Maerten, Rudi (Editor of moving image work)
Language:French
English
Language and/or Writing System:
First work: French and English dialogue; with English subtitles. Second work: French dialogue; with English subtitles.
Published: New York, NY : ArtMattan Productions, [2014?]
Subjects:
N'Dour, Youssou > Travel.
Kouyaté, Sotigui.
Jazz > History and criticism.
Black people > Music > History and criticism.
Music > Effect of slave trade on.
African diaspora.
Enslaved persons > Songs and music.
Slavery > Songs and music.
Concerts > Senegal > Gorée.
Senegalese > Belgium.
Immigrants > Belgium.
Griots.
Gorée (Senegal)
Documentary films.
Concert films.
Music videos.
Genre:
Music
Songs and music.
Documentary films.
Concert films.
Music videos.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (160, 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Youssou N'Dour and Sotigui Kouyaté.
African storytellers.
Return to Gorée.
Noms n'habitent nulle part.
Names live nowhere. [Parallel title]
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
Return to Gorée: A musical road movie that follows Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's historical journey tracing the trail left by slaves and the jazz music they invented. Youssou N'Dour's challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire of his own songs to perform a concert in Gorée, the island that today symbolizes the slave trade and stands to honor its victims. The DVD includes the final concert on Gorée Island.
Les noms n'habitent nulle part: A griot (West African storyteller) traveling from Dakar to Brussels weaves a tale about African expatriates and offers a candid look at the life of African immigrants in Belgium. The title is a Senegalese proverb. The film stars Sotigui Kouyaté (1936-2010), a real life griot, as the storyteller. The DVD also includes Sotigui Kouyaté, un griot moderne--a 1997 film by Mahamat Saleh Haroun about one of Africa's greatest actors, musicians, and griots.
Note:Title from container.
Original French title of first work: Retour à Gorée.
First work originally released as a motion picture in 2006; second work in 1994.
Special features: About Youssou N'Dour; about Sotigui Kouyaté; about ArtMattan Productions.
Call Number:ML3760 .Y684 2014 VideoDVD
Credits:Return to Gorée: Director, Pierre-Yves Borgeaud ; screenplay and musical conception, Pierre-Yves Borgeaud ; from an original idea by Youssou N'Dour and Emmanuel Gétaz ; producers, Jean-Louis Porchet, Gérard Ruey ; production companies, CAB Productions, Iris Productions, Dreampixies ; cinematography, Camille Cottagnoud ; editor, Daniel Gibel.
Les noms n'habitent nulle part: Director, Dominique Loreau ; producer, Dominique Loreau ; production companies, Underworld, Centre de l'Audiovisuel à Bruxelles (C.B.A.), RTBF Liège "Carré Noir" ; cinematography, Etienne de Grammont, Marc-André Batigne ; editor, Rudi Maerten ; music, Philippe Woitchik, Anne-François Raedemaeker ; documentation, Philippe Woitchik.
System Details:DVD.
Cast:
Return to Gorée: Youssou N'Dour, Moncef Genoud, Joseph Ndiaye, Idris Muhammad, Amiri Baraka.
Les noms n'habitent nulle part: Sotigui Kouyaté, Nar Sène, Sékou Baldé, Assane Kaba.