James Bruce: an 18th century Scotsman’s journey to Abyssinia
18th century Scottish Laird, James Bruce, becomes Lord of the Bedchamber in the Abyssinian/Ethiopian court and finds the source of the Nile.
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Pitt Rivers Collection: The rainforest music of the BayAka
The hauntingly beautiful music of the BayAka people, and their deep and abiding relationship to the rainforest in the Central African Republic.
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Ethnomusicology is the study of music in culture, and music as culture. Whether it is gamelan, techno, Bollywood or English folk ethnomusicologists want to understand the music – and the society that made it.
MorePitt Rivers Collection: Reel to Real
The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford has hours of music from thousands of cultures all over the world. Ethnomusicologist Noel Lobley explains how the music, some recorded on silver foil 100 years ago, is being curated.
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