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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 (a musical instrument of the Shona people) internationally under the name kalimba.
13 de jun. de 2019 · Learn about Hugh Tracey, a white European who devoted his life to studying and documenting traditional African music and instruments. Discover how he created the Hugh Tracey kalimba, a modern instrument that opened the door to ancient and traditional African music.
16 de feb. de 2017 · In 1950, Hugh Tracey, a British-born ethnomusicologist, travelled to Kapkatet, Kenya, to record the native songs of the Kipsigis, a pastoral tribe based in the western highlands of the Rift...
31 de jul. de 2019 · This story examines the unique and magical connection of the Tracey family – Hugh, Andrew and Andrew’s son, Geoffrey – to traditional African music, culture and belief systems. In August 2017, the Krugersdorp farm that once belonged to Hugh, and where Geoffrey grew up, was transferred to a new owner.
Founded in 1954 by Hugh Tracey, I.L.A.M. is the greatest repository of African music in the world. A research institution devoted to the study of music and oral arts in Africa, it preserves thousands of historical recordings going back to 1929 and supports contemporary fieldwork.
7 de jun. de 2018 · This chapter considers issues in repatriation of digital copies of field recordings of music obtained during the colonial era. It is based on the Hugh Tracey Collection preserved at the International Library of African Music (ILAM).
30 de ene. de 2020 · Learn about Hugh Tracey, a British-born musician who recorded hundreds of songs from Zimbabwe and other African countries in the 20th century. Listen to his stories and some of his recordings with Afropop producer Wills Glasspeigel.
