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Popular
Memories (excerpt)
Popular Memories (iPod
format, 10Mb)
(N.B. The video images, based on the speech rhythms underlying the 3
pieces only appear at the end of the movie after the music has finished)
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Popular Memories
These three short pieces are based on
recordings made by the Centre
for Popular Memory in Cape Town . The
Centre builds on the strong sense of oral history often found in Africa
by recording people's stories about the past and researching the ways
in which these memories play a part in shaping individual and group
identities. Besides the content of the stories I became increasingly
fascinated with their musical aspects - the pacing, rhythms and
inflections that communicate a great deal even if the meaning of the
words is obscured.
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