The Story of Por Por.
After electric horns arrived in West Africa, honk horns virtually disappeared. But a union of bus and truck drivers in the Accra township of La kept the por por horns and invented a jazzy honking music adding bells, drums, and voices. The La drivers only perform this Por Por at funerals of their fel...
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Language: | English |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Documentary Educational Resources,
2010.
Kanopy Streaming, 2019. |
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Online Access: | View this video online |
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