Lasisi [videorecording] / Ulysses Jenkins. [1983]

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Lasisi [videorecording] / Ulysses Jenkins. [1983]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166526804

This documentary presents a performance of African fusion music by the group Ju Ju Music, featuring African and American musicians led by Nigerian-born Lofty Amao singing a Yoruban song at the Comeback Inn in Venice, Calif. Footage of the musical performance is edited with footage of a New Orleans-style "second line" dance performed by L. Martina Young and Marvin Tunney.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (12 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.

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Young, L. Martina

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Ju Ju Music.

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Amao, Lofty.

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Jenkins, Ulysses, 1946-

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Long Beach museum of art

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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...

Tunney, Marvin.

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