Hugh Tracey
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title:
Hugh Tracey
text:
Hugh Travers Tracey was an English ethnomusicologist. He and his wife collected and archived music from Southern and Central Africa. From the 1920s through the 1970s, Tracey made over 35,000 recordings of African folk music. He popularized the mbira internationally under the name kalimba. Hugh Tracey saw the importance of music within culture when he worked a tobacco farm in Southern Rhodesia. Here, he experienced music that displayed beliefs and morals, which inspired him to make his field reco
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English Ethnomusicologist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Tracey
date created:
2006-02-16T15:34:23Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T08:25:24Z
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