Listen All Around The Golden Age of Central and East African Music Hugh Tracey

Description: **** NEW CONDITION ADULT OWNED / SMOKE FREE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE INQUIRE Listen All Around The Golden Age of Central and East African Music Hugh Tracey - N12 Made by ethnomusicologist and field-recording pioneer Hugh Tracey in central and eastern Africa between 1950-58. The genre and focus of this collection is rumba and its variations -- Congolese rumba, dansi and benga. South African ethnomusicologist Hush Tracey was born to British parents in 1903. As a young man, while farming in what is today Zimbabwe, Tracey fell in love with the songs sung by his African co-workers. In 1929, astonished that nobody was documenting these and other indigenous African musics, Tracey set about making high quality recordings and keeping meticulous notes about the music. A couple of years later, with the support of a Carnegie Scholarship, Tracey branched out into radio broadcasting and wholeheartedly devoted himself to recording the traditional musics of sub-Saharan Africa. In 1954, he founded the International Library of African Music and set about acquiring collections of African instruments and recordings -- many of which he gathered while doing fieldwork. Despite his dedication to preserving the music of sub-Saharan Africa, some ethnomusicologists have criticized Tracey for conducting supposedly "traditional" performances, shortening the length of songs to fit onto his tape and manipulating the position of his microphone in order to record what instruments he thought were most appealing. Whatever the case, Hugh Tracey made recordings of exceptional quality, edited over 200 commercial releases, and preserved the musical legacies of many African cultures that have since disappeared. 84-page book with 2 CDs + streaming / download code featuring 47 newly-transferred and remastered recordings that Hugh Tracey made in central and eastern Africa between 1950-1958. Dust-to-Digital is excited to partner with the International Library of African Music to present Listen All Around a compilation of newly-transferred and remastered recordings that Hugh Tracey made between 1950-1958. The recordings presented here were made in central and eastern Africa specifically, the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (now Tanzania). The genre of music Tracey documented, and the focus of this double album and book is rumba and its variations Congolese rumba, dansi and benga. The recordings, photographs and detailed liner notes included in this set provide a rich point of immersion into the mid-20th-century music of eastern and central Africa. This release is a partnership between Dust-to-Digital and the International Library of African Music, aiming to increase access to these historically significant recordings. Founded by April and Lance Ledbetter, Dust-to-Digital is a renowned label dedicated to preserving and presenting hard-to-find, essential recordings and performances. Dimensions: 5.75" x 7.25" x 0.75" Stickers on back (see pic) Sealed _gsrx_vers_1677 (GS 9.8.1 (1677))

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