Songs of the adventurers [videorecording] / produced and directed by Gei Zantzinger

Published: [Devault, Pa] : Constant Springs Productions, [1987]
Copyright Date: ©1987
Physical Description: 1 videocassette (47 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Additional Creators: Coplan, David B. (David Bellin), Msomi, Welcome, Zantzinger, Alfred Gei, and Constant Spring Productions

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Summary

Depicts the poetic songs, known as difela, of Sotho migrant workers, who must go from their homes in Lesotho to work in the mines in the Republic of South Africa.

Subject(s)

Note

English narration with songs in Sotho with English subtitles.
Documentary.

Creation/Production Credits Note

Camera, Thomas Ott ; sound, Gei Zantzinger ; anthropologists, David Coplan, Georgia McMillen ; editor, Ben Levin.

Participant/Performer Note

David Coplan ; recitations in English, Welcome, Msomi ; reciters, Molefi Motsoahae ... [et al.].

Technical Details

VHS.

View MARC record | catkey: 1547429