Item : A Por Por Funeral for Ashirifie DVD03

Geographic and cultural informations

Location

Accra

Population / social group

Ethnographic context

"Por Por music (pronounced "paw paw") is named for the honking sound of antique squeeze-bulb car horns, ubiquitous on the wooden lorries of Ghana's early transport history. After electric horns arrived in West Africa, these obsolete signaling instruments virtually disappeared. But a union of bus and truck drivers in the Accra township of La kept the por por horns and invented a jazzy honking music adding bells, drums, and voices. The La drivers only perform Por Por at funerals of their fellow union transport workers, and their music has gone largely unnoticed until recently. In March 2008 the La Drivers Union Por Por Group lost one of its key members, Nelson Ashirifie Mensah. This film documents the funeral performed in his memory and discusses Por Por's relation to the New Orleans jazz funeral."
(Extrait du livret)

Musical informations

Archiving data

Code

CNRSMH_E_2010_005_001_003

Item number

DVD03

Remarks

Contenu du film :
01 Titles, Ashirifie performs with Por Por in 2005
02 Musical condolences,part 1
03 Musical condolences,part 2
04 Going to the mortuary
05 At the mortuary
06 Funeral processions
07 Wake, part 1
08 Wake, part 2
09 Funeral, part 1
la Funeral, part 2
11 Procession and cemetery
12 Par Por and New Orleans

Mentions de responsabilités :
Producers: Steven Feld and Nii Yemo Nunu
Video and Sound: Steven Feld
Editor: Jeremiah Ra Richards

Récompenses :
Ce film a notamment été récompensé du Prix Bartok en 2010 (année à vérifier), attribué par la Société Française d'Ethnomusicologie (SFE), dans le cadre du festival du film ethnographique Jean Rouch (Paris, France).

Last modification

Oct. 23, 2012, 11:24 a.m.