African music-old and new

Duration: 22

Year Published: 1978

Creator: FilmFair

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Tells how traditional African music is being influenced by Western instruments such as flutes, rattles, drums, and the mbira. Takes the viewer to a modern concert performed by two African musicians whose uses of old-style but amplified drums, the electric guitar, wired mbira, and up to six flutes at once treat the viewer and an enthusiastic audience to a unique experience.

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