Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens / Ascension in association with "A Cut Above Productions" ; produced & directed by John R. Bowey ; written by Gus Silber.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Published/​Created
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, ©2004.
Description
1 videodisc (25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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    Subject(s)
    Film producer
    Film director
    Screenwriter
    Narrator
    Editor of moving image work
    Director of photography
    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Getty AAT genre
    Series
    African wave, South African music and its influences. [More in this series]
    Summary note
    This program features Simon Mahlathini Nkabinde (The Lion of Soweto) and his backup groups, the Mahotella Queens and the Makgona Tsotle Band. It also traces the influences of his music from the streets of Soweto into Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Malawi and Mozambique.
    Notes
    Originally produced in 1990.
    Creation/​Production credits
    Editor, Alan J. Melville ; cameraman, Vincent G. Cox.
    System details
    DVD.
    Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
    Narrator: Gcina Mhlope.
    Other title(s)
    Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens
    Title on container
    • Mahlathini
    Publisher no.
    7641
    OCLC
    71788276
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