2005 Experimental Video: 'Ghana is not African'

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In the piece 'Ghana is not African' the listener is subjected to an ongoing downpour of steel string rain punctuated by random door bell-like melodies via an electrical guitar. Meanwhile, the visuals display images of Maltese folk singers (ghana) melting into each other and suddenly provide a musical addition leading the piece to its climatic end. Oral poetry survives as a living tradition in the Maltese Islands. It is still one of the main sources of popular folk entertainment. The Maltese word for orally-performed poetry is ghana, or song, which covers a wide range of poems in sung form with musical accompaniment by guitarists.

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Uploaded: October 13th, 2006 @ 2:28 pm
Author: peters8100

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