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Compares calypso music from Trinidad and Tobago with highlife music from Ghana. Trindidadian calypso musician Lancelot Layne travels to Ghana to meet Koo Nimo, Ghana's foremost exponent of acoustic guitar highlife. Nimo also visits Layne to experience the music of Trinidad.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: NAFTI of Ghana, Banyan Archives
Other Authors: Laird, Christopher, Bampoe-Addo, Wallace, Layne, Lancelot, Nimo, Ko, 1934-, Kitchener, Lord
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Twi
Language Notes:Includes songs sung in Twi with English subtitles.
Published: Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago : Banyan Archives, [2007?]
Subjects:
Calypso (Music) > Trinidad and Tobago.
Highlife (Music) > Ghana.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Description
Summary:Compares calypso music from Trinidad and Tobago with highlife music from Ghana. Trindidadian calypso musician Lancelot Layne travels to Ghana to meet Koo Nimo, Ghana's foremost exponent of acoustic guitar highlife. Nimo also visits Layne to experience the music of Trinidad.
Item Description:"Produced ... with the support of the Division of Communication Development and Free Flow of Information of UNESCO."
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (57 min., 50 sec.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD-R.
Production Credits:Camera, Christopher Laird ; editors, Trevor Johnson, Christopher Laird.