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Interview with Donald Eno Washington [sound recording]

Title
  1. Interview with Donald Eno Washington [sound recording]
Published by
  1. 1993.
Author
  1. Washington, Eno.

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Additional authors
  1. Farlow, Lesley.
Description
  1. 4 sound cassettes (5 hrs.)
Alternative title
  1. Dance Oral History Project.
Subject
  1. Olatunji, Babatunde
  2. Traore, Jabril
  3. Drum
  4. Drummers (Musicians)
  5. Dance > Nigeria
  6. AIDS (Disease)
  7. Dance > Gambia
  8. Sahir, Ahmad
  9. Washington, Eno
  10. DeMille, Rosalind
  11. Borde, Percival
  12. Dance > Senegal
  13. Mandingo (African people) > Dances
Contents
  1. SUMMARY: Cassette 1. Mr. Washington discusses his childhood in St. Louis, Missouri; Chicago, Illinois and Portland, Oregon; his first educational and performing experiences; the origins of his work in social and street dancing; the influence of the church and of his first mentor, Ahmad Sahir. -- Cassette 2. Experiences at Portland State University; his move to Amherst to attend the University without Walls (a part of the University of Massachusetts); meeting his second griot, Rosalind De Mille; touring with Babatunde Olatunji; moving to New York; returning to Massachusetts to work for a Master of Fine Arts degree at Smith College; a trip to West Africa to study with Jabril Traore; the effect of AIDS on his daily life and personal philosophy; the inspiration for his Master's degree concert: Dance on the wind: memoirs of a Mississippi shaman; his work with drummer Bamidele Osumarea. -- Cassette 3. Discusses Reaching out around AIDS, a benefit concert that he produced; meeting Percival Borde; his three visits to Africa including Nigeria, Senegal and Gambia; learning the dances of the Jolas and the Mandinkes, including Bougarabou, Casa, Koba; the relationship of the dancers and the culture as a whole to the drummers. -- Cassette 4. Further discussion of his trips to Africa and particular dances, including Djongdong, Wolousodong, Lamba and Sabar.
Call number
  1. *MGZTC 3-1809
Note
  1. Interviewed by Lesley Farlow on February 5 and 6 1993 at Donald Eno Washington's home in Greenfield, Massachusetts.
  2. For transcript of interview see: *MGZMT 3-1809.
Author
  1. Washington, Eno. Interviewee
Title
  1. Interview with Donald Eno Washington [sound recording]
Imprint
  1. 1993.
Local subject
  1. Mandingo (African people) -- Dances.
Added author
  1. Farlow, Lesley. Interviewer
Research call number
  1. *MGZTC 3-1809
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