Wednesday 15 June 2016

History; See How These Villagers Were Amazed After Hearing A Song From A Speaker For The First Time

In this picture, an Mbuti Pygmy tribe in northern Congo, crowded around a loudspeaker, listening back for the first time to a recording of their own singing. It was 1952 and the music had just been captured by the legendary ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey. ‪

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