Ethnomusicology Movies

  • 1979
    'Are'are Music

    'Are'are Music

    'Are'are Music

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    A documentary about the traditional music of the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands.

    'Are'are Music
  • 1969
    A Curing Ceremony

    A Curing Ceremony

    A Curing Ceremony

    01969HD

    Sha//ge, a very young woman about to have her first child, falls ill, probably with malaria. /Ti!kay, a relative and healer, enters a mild trance,...

    A Curing Ceremony
  • 1964
    Atumpan: The Talking Drums of Ghana

    Atumpan: The Talking Drums of Ghana

    Atumpan: The Talking Drums of Ghana

    01964HD

    This classic documentary features the story and sounds of the talking master drums of the Ashanti. Filmed in Ghana and narrated by Mantle Hood

    Atumpan: The Talking Drums of Ghana
  • 2024
    La marsellesa de los borrachos

    La marsellesa de los borrachos

    La marsellesa de los borrachos

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    La marsellesa de los borrachos
  • 2022
    21st Century Âshikizm Art Movement

    21st Century Âshikizm Art Movement

    21st Century Âshikizm Art Movement

    02022HD

    The sound of centuries-old Adhan in Turkey, the sound of centuries-old church bells and the polyphonic music of Europe echo in our memory. Our...

    21st Century Âshikizm Art Movement
  • 2020
    Sufi, Saint & Swinger

    Sufi, Saint & Swinger

    Sufi, Saint & Swinger

    02020HD

    The tragic story of an American music virtuoso who found in 1970s Iran the love and acceptance he never received back home, and who was punished by...

    Sufi, Saint & Swinger
  • 1985
    Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan

    Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan

    Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan

    01985HD

    Amir, shot during the height of the Afghan civil war in the 1980s, investigates and portrays the life of Afghan refugees living in and around the...

    Amir: An Afghan Refugee Musician's Life in Peshawar, Pakistan
  • 2017
    Heavy Heart

    Heavy Heart

    Heavy Heart

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    Documentary film Heavy Heart arose as a part of ethnomusicological research Silalo panori / Cold water (2014 – 2017) of ancient Roma songs....

    Heavy Heart
  • 2010
    I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Portrait of David Toop Through His Records Collection

    I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Portrait of David Toop Through His Records Collection

    I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Portrait of David Toop Through His Records Collection

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    British musician and writer David Toop leads viewers through a tour of his voluminous record collection, reflecting on perception, the limits of...

    I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Portrait of David Toop Through His Records Collection
  • 1991
    Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania

    Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania

    Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania

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    The dance house movement, which (illegally) brought folk music from the minority Hungarian Gypsies and peasants of Transylvania - now part of Romania...

    Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania
  • 2013
    Small Path Music

    Small Path Music

    Small Path Music

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    For most of the last decade Laurent Jeanneau has been on an urgent mission to record as much as he can of the surviving music of ethnic minorities in...

    Small Path Music