For Future Generations, an exhibition recognising the immense contribution of International Library of African Music (Ilam) founder Hugh Tracey, is opening at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum at 1 Park Drive today at 5.30pm.
Dedicated to the preservation of traditional African music, this travelling exhibition was created by Ham, based at Rhodes University, in 2010. It features images, publications, film and video, audio recordings, as well as a display of traditional African instruments relating to Tracey and his son, Andrew's extensive field research.
Tracey undertook 19 excursions between 1928 and the early'70s as far north as the then Belgian Congo, and his recordings covering east, central and southern Africa make up one of the most important collections of African music in the world. The exhibition will be open to the public from tomorrow until September 28.
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