Ep.3 The Anxiety of Representation: Tunde Jegede – Heritage and Definitions

This episode explores the music of multi-instrumentalist Tunde Jegede, and his life-long journey towards achieving a synthesis between Western classical music, African classical music, his influences from the Griot tradition, and music of the African diaspora. He discusses the artistic challenges navigating between two worlds, culminating in an authentic musical language which both embodies and transcends his dual heritage: the result of a cross-pollination between his experiences as a Kora player and as a classical cellist. Film by composer Des Oliver created for the British Music Collection Watch the full series here: https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk... Composer: Tunde Jegede Performers Tunde Jegede & NOK Orchestra 'African Messiah' The Samadhi Ensemble La Verne Williams, Josephine Amankwah, Wills Morgan, Juwon Ogungbe and HKB FiNN 'An African Ballet: Kora Concerto' MUSON Ensemble Choreographer / Dancer - Qudus Onikeku Films: "African Messiah" by Sunara Begum "An African Ballet: Kora Concerto" Courtesy of New Horizons "By the Will" by Ron Wyman "Jarabi" Kasse Mady Diabate & Tunde Jegede by Ron Wyman "Tunde Jegede & NOK Orchestra" by Sunara Begum / Tunde Jegede Cinematography: Yukitaka Amemiya / Yue Wang Film makers: Sunara Begum – http://www.sunarabegum.com Ron Wyman – http://zerogravityfilms.com/ Yukitaka Amemiya – http://yukitaka-amemiya.com/ Credits and Special Thanks: Angharad Cooper Alex Gowan-Webster Elizabeth Hannon Galina Chester