Hugh Tracey and the International Library of African Music
From: 03 May 2012 To: 17 Jun 2012
Posted: 23 January 2012 |
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It was established by ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey in 1954 to preserve thousands of historical recordings, some dating all the way back to 1929. Titled For Future Generations: Hugh Tracey and the International Library of African Music, the exhibition displays a selection of African musical instruments from Tracey’s collection, as well as items related to his field research, publications, film and audio recordings.
Born in 1903, Tracey arrived in South Africa in the 1920s and was immediately fascinated by a musical instrument called the mbira, a kind of thumb piano. He began making field recordings of music in the early ‘20s, working right through into the ‘70s.
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