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DA KALI - THE PLEDGE TO THE ART OF THE GRIOT
Film screening and talk with director Lucy Durán
29.11.2021, 19:30 Uhr
VENUE
Kino 813 in der BRÜCKE Hahnenstraße 6, 50667 Köln
This film, shot on location between 2009 and 2012, follows the children of four celebrated jeli (griot) families in southern Mali as they face the challenges of learning the ancient art of the griot in the 21st century. It is the first time that the process of childhood music learning in Mali has ever been documented. It is a film by Lucy Durán, edited by Michele Banal. (Further information)
The film screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Lucy Durán and Rainer Polak (Marx Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt).
GUESTS
Lucy Durán (SOAS University of London)
Rainer Polak (MPI for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfu
REGISTRATION
Jun.-Prof. Eckehard Pistrick
epistric@uni-koeln.de
ORGANISED BY
Global South Studies Center (GSSC)
Institut für Europäische Musikethnologie
Filmclub 813
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