This week’s selection comes from Isobel Clouter, Curator of World & Traditional Music. Here is an intimate recording made by one of our long time field recordists John Brearley. Travelling with his own violin to encourage a two-way flow of ideas, as suggested by anthropologist Alan Barnard, John Brearley sought… read more
This week’s selection comes from Dr Janet Topp Fargion, Lead Curator of World and Traditional Music. This song was recorded in 1991 by ethnomusicologist Lesley Larkum at the Green Hotel, Mek’ele (Mekelle) in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia. It represents one of those wonderful moments of ethnographic fieldwork when… read more
This week’s selection comes from Stephen Cleary, Lead Curator of Literary & Creative Recordings. This seasonal offering comes from our African Writers Club collection and was recorded on 7 November 1966 in London on a Revox F36 tape machine. ‘No Room at Solitaire’ is a dramatization by Cosmo Pieterse of… read more
This week’s selection comes from Dr Janet Topp Fargion, Lead Curator of World and Traditional Music. Dr Peter Cooke has been researching music in Uganda since the 1960s. In 1968 he was in the Kisoro area in western Uganda where he recorded a few songs performed by members of the… read more
This week’s selection comes from Dr Janet Topp Fargion, Lead Curator of World and Traditional Music. This is an ‘ondjongo’ song sung by a group of Himba women, recorded in 1998 by French ethnomusicologist Emmanuelle Olivier (BL reference C1709). The recording was made within the French-Namibian project "Living Music and… read more