BLENHEIM, ON.- Classic car fever swept over Georgia this past weekend as RM Auctions presented the renowned Milton Robson Collection, posting $9.2 million in sales and setting a string of new auction records. Held at the Robson Estate in Gainesville, G…
Hugh Tracey’s African Music Recordings Now on Display in Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG (AP).- Hugh Tracey came to southern Africa in the 1920s to become a tobacco farmer but ended up compiling the largest known archive of traditional African music, recording performers from Congo to Zimbabwe over nearly five decades. Now hun…
Hugh Tracey’s African Music Recordings Now on Display in Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG (AP).- Hugh Tracey came to southern Africa in the 1920s to become a tobacco farmer but ended up compiling the largest known archive of traditional African music, recording performers from Congo to Zimbabwe over nearly five decades. Now hun…
Tracey’s African Music Recordings Now on Display
JOHANNESBURG (AP).- Hugh Tracey came to southern Africa in the 1920s to become a tobacco farmer but ended up compiling the largest known archive of traditional African music, recording performers from Congo to Zimbabwe over nearly five decades. Now hun…
Anthropological Exhibition in Mexico City Examines Ancient Diseases in Bones
MEXICO CITY.- In bones, like in paper and photographic film, the history of what happened remains; those who “read” these imprints are physical anthropologists and they have discovered diseases of other eras. This knowledge is captured in the…
Journey through the Black Atlantic Opens at Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA.- Paul Gilroy used the term ‘The Black Atlantic’ to describe the fusion of black cultures with other cultures from around the Atlantic. His book, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, had an enormous i…
25 Centuries of Exchange between Asia and Europe at BOZAR in Brussels
BRUSSELS.- Together, Asia and Europe form a
single
gigantic continent, Eurasia , with an endless variety of landscapes,
climates,
fauna, and flora and an equally great diversity of peoples and cultures.
For
millennia past, Asia and Europe …