Name: Listen All Around: The Golden Age of Central and East African Music
Brand: Various

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

dtd-52

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Double CD with Hardcover Book.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-06-15

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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UPC / Barcode

880226005221

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Various

Genre GB

African

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Dust To Digital

<p>Dust-to-Digital was founded in February 1999 by Steven Lance Ledbetter, a radio disc-jockey at WRAS, Georgia State University in Atlanta (Georgia, USA). They specialize in producing cultural artifacts that combine rare recordings - mostly taken from 78 RPM records - with historic images and detailed texts describing the artists and their works.</p>

Legendary ethno musicologist and field-recording pioneer, Hugh Tracey founded the International Library of African Music (ILAM) in 1954. Today, ILAM preserves thousands of historical recordings and has become the greatest repository of African music in the world. Dust-to-Digital is excited to partner with ILAM to present <i>Listen All Around</i> –a compilation of newly-transferred and remastered recordings that Hugh Tracey made between 1950-1958. The recordings presented here were made in central and eastern Africa - specifically, the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (now Tanzania). The genre of music Tracey documented, and the focus of this double album and book is rumba and its variations - Congolese rumba, dansi and benga. The recordings, photographs and detailed liner notes included in this set provide a rich point of immersion into the mid-20th-century music of eastern and central Africa. 

Listen All Around: The Golden Age of Central and East African Music

Music GB