page_title: Hugh Tracey
hierarchical_section_title: Hugh Tracey
caption_attribution_description: English: Hugh Tracey in the Old ILAM at Msaho, Roodepoort 1960sFrançais&#160;: Hugh Tracey à l'ILAM, en 1960
context_page_description: Hugh Travers Tracey was an English ethnomusicologist. He and his wife collected and archived music from Southern and Central Africa. From the 1920s through the 1970s, Tracey made over 35,000 recordings of African folk music. He popularised the mbira internationally under the name kalimba. The kalimba is most similar to the mbira nyunga nyunga, but varies substantially from the more popular mbira dzazadzimu which is a fundamentally different instrument.
context_section_description: Hugh Travers Tracey (29 January 1903 – 23 October 1977) was an English ethnomusicologist. He and his wife collected and archived music from Southern and Central Africa. From the 1920s through the 1970s, Tracey made over 35,000 recordings of African folk music. He popularised the mbira (a musical instrument of the Shona people) internationally under the name kalimba. The kalimba is most similar to the mbira nyunga nyunga, but varies substantially from the more popular mbira dzazadzimu which is a fundamentally different instrument.
caption: Hugh Tracey in South Africa, 1960.
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