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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.
Jun 13, 2019 · Hugh Tracey, a white European man, cherished traditional African music and made it his life’s work to study and preserve that music.
Or perhaps you could say our story starts in 1920, when 17-year-old Hugh Tracey moved from England to Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), Africa, where he first heard the melodious strands of the mbira dzavadzimu in the hands of African men who worked on his brother’s tobacco farm.
Jul 31, 2019 · Hugh Tracey (1903-1977) came over from England almost 100 years ago, in 1921, to farm tobacco in Southern Rhodesia, and immediately became fascinated by the local culture. He learnt the Karanga dialect of the Shona language by working with farmworkers in the fields and developed a deep love for their music.
3 Hugh Tracey Kalimbas. The Original Hugh Tracey Kalimbas, made in South Africa by African Musical Instruments, are among the best in the world. Made of native African kiaat wood and spring steel, these kalimbas are real musical instruments that will amaze you! Showing 1–12 of 37 results.
Hugh Tracey has stood as one of the major figures of modern musicology, in spite of the fact that he himself started as an amateur, not an academic. He became the noted expert he is known as today by traveling, listening to and recording the music of sub-Saharan Africa for almost forty years, spurred on by a personal fascination with the music ...
Nov 1, 2021 · Ever wondered where the kalimba came from? We’ve got Hugh Tracey and his wife to thank for introducing this lovely sound box from Africa to the world. The English ethnomusicologist popularized the instrument of the Shona people in Southern Africa into what we know today as: the kalimba.
