ATANÁSIO NYUSI (speaking Portuguese): (explosion, drumming) ANNOUNCER: "The Sound of Masks," on Afropop.
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ANNOUNCER: Funding for Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the MacArthur Foundation.
(Nyusi humming) (Nyusi chuckles) (speaking Portuguese): SARA CF DE GOUVEIA (speaking Portuguese): GOUVEIA: GOUVEIA: (jumps, claps) ♪ ♪ (distant rumbling) (jet engine roaring) (cannon fire booming) (flames crackling) (jangling) (shouting indistinctly) ♪ ♪ (flames crackling, bell tolling distantly) ♪ ♪ (bell tolling distantly) NYUSI: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (drumming) (drums pounding) (bells jingling) (drumbeat quickening) (drumbeat intensifies, bells jingling) (people chattering, birds singing) ♪ ♪ (drumming continues) NYUSI: (drumming, whistles blowing, indistinct chatter) (drumming, singing) (crowd singing) (bells jingling, drumming quickens) (singing continues) (drumming quickens, bells jingle rapidly) (crowd cheering) (drumming pattern switches) (people chattering, laughing) (drumming fades out) NYUSI: (drumbeats mimicking clock ticking) (drumming quickens) (drumming continues) WOMAN (speaking Portuguese): NYUSI: (drumming, chiming) (distant traffic passing) ♪ ♪ (rooster crowing) (children playing) ♪ ♪ (drumming) (rapid drumming) (drumming continues) (indistinct shout) MAN (speaking Portuguese): NANGONGA (speaking Portuguese): MAN: (drumming continues) (men chanting) (chanting continues) (drumming continues) (drumming continues) (kids playing) (drumming fades) (kids chattering) NYUSI: MANUPA: MAURICIO NANGONGA: MANUPA: (Manupa chuckles) MANUPA: ♪ ♪ (children shouting in distance) NYUSI: (kids playing) NYUSI: (boy makes trilling noise) (kids playing, shouting) MANUPA: (leaves rustling, kids playing distantly) ♪ ♪ (kids playing distantly) ♪ ♪ NYUSI: NATEPO: NYUSI: ♪ ♪ MAN (speaking Portuguese on television): (bells jangling) ♪ ♪ NATEPO: NATEPO: NYUSI: NYUSI: NATEPO: NYUSI: (wildlife chittering) ♪ ♪ (drumming, bells jingling) (chopping wood) (chopping) NATEPO: NYUSI: NATEPO: (Nyusi laughs) (birds chirping) NYUSI: NATEPO: (wildlife chittering) NYUSI: ♪ ♪ (bell tolls) (drumming) (chopping) (tolling continues) SAMORA MACHEL (speaking Portuguese): (drumming) (bell tolling) (drumming continues) (crowd chanting, bells jingling) ♪ ♪ (enthusiastic shouting) ♪ ♪ NYUSI: (distant crowing) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ SINGER: (wildlife chirping) NYUSI: ♪ ♪ (indistinct chatter) MAN (speaking Portuguese): (laughter) (indistinct chatter) MARCELO CAETANO (speaking Portuguese): (bicycle spokes clicking) (distorted ringing) (drumming, bells jingling) (indistinct chatter) NYUSI: (indistinct chatter) (bell tolling, drumming) ♪ ♪ WOMAN: Hey!
WOMAN AND NYUSI: (group singing): (singing continues) NYUSI: (laughter, cheering) (crowd cheering) (speaking Portuguese): (drumming) (man shouting indistinctly) (drumming) (cheering) NYUSI: (rhythmic drumming) (drumming continues) (drumming stops) (breathing heavily) (anguished cries) (cries echoing, fading) (chuckles) (laughs) ♪ ♪ MANUPA: MAN: MANUPA: MAN: MANUPA: (laughs) NYUSI: MAN: (speaking Portuguese) (music playing) (man giving instructions) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ INSTRUCTOR: (classical music stops) (music begins again) (man counting, giving instructions in Portuguese) (counting in Portuguese) ♪ ♪ (counting in Portuguese) (instructions continue) (rhythmic drumming begins) (call and response between instructor and children) (rhythmic drumming continues) ♪ ♪ (men chanting) (rhythmic drumming) (rhythmic drumming continues) (drumming continues) CHILD: NYUSI: (drumming, whistling) (rapid percussion) ♪ ♪ (bells jangling) (laughter) ♪ ♪ (indistinct chatter) ♪ ♪ NYUSI: (indistinct speaking) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (music stops) (humming) (dishes clanking) MAN (on TV): ...that sweater and still look... (drumming) (music playing) (men and women singing) ♪ ♪ (drumming, guitar playing) (music continues) (cheers) (music fades) ♪ ♪ (Nyusi grunts) NATEPO: NYUSI: (drumming) (drumming continues) (drumming continues, muffled) ♪ ♪ NATEPO: NYUSI: ♪ ♪ (bells jangling) (birds, insects chirping) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ANNOUNCER: Funding for Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the MacArthur Foundation.
Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange celebrates its 15th season with a collection of films recognizing the importance creativity has in shaping our world.
On this season of Afropop, "Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters."
(singing) BILL T. JONES: We were very abandoned and lost and afraid.
This piece is gonna be about what it takes to live.
♪ ♪ Hi, I'm Matteo.
JONES: What part are you doing?
MATTEO: I'm Larry/Paolo.
- I'm playing you, the Bill part.
(laughs) Us, us!
What are we going through?
What is our AIDS right now?
♪ ♪ JONES: There are tragic events that in some ways define generations.
A work of art maybe could even transcend that era.
♪ ♪ ANNOUNCER: "Queen Kidjo."
ANGELIQUE KIDJO: (speaking French) ♪ Take a look at these hands ♪ ANNOUNCER: With 16 albums to her name, and a unique ability to fuse different genres, Angelique Kidjo has rightfully earned the title "Queen of African Music."
(singing) ANNOUNCER: "Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts."
NARRATOR: So much of Bill Traylor's work is gone.
RADCLIFFE BAILEY: It's almost like someone did something and vanished.
SINGER: ♪ Hambone, hambone where you been ♪ ROBERTA SMITH: Traylor is probably the greatest artist you've never heard of.
SINGER: ♪ Papa's gonna buy me a mountain ♪ We're talking about the realm of mystery.
BAILEY: When I see Bill Traylor's work, I see movement.
I feel jazz, I feel past steps.
SINGER: ♪ Now hey ♪ ♪ Now hey ♪ (clapping) ♪ Now hey ♪ ANNOUNCER: "The Sound of Masks."
NYUSI: (explosion, drumming) ♪ ♪ (bell tolls) ANNOUNCER: "Rewind and Play."
Paris, 1969.
Thelonious Monk on the road.
MAN: Thelonious, why did you put your piano in your kitchen?
Thelonious... (indistinct speaking) THELONIOUS MONK: You asked me about the first time I came to France.
MAN: No, no, no, no.
MONK: No secrets, is it?
MAN: No, but it's not nice.
MONK: That's not nice?
MAN: Yeah.
ANNOUNCER: The striking portrait of an American jazz master.
(piano playing) Experience the power Black art has to restore, reflect... and celebrate our triumphs across the diaspora.
♪ ♪ On season 15 of Afropop.
WOMAN: Good!
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