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Out of Africa: New Fieldwork A/V Materials Come to Duke
February 13, 2009
4 PM
Rare Book Room
Perkins Library, Duke University West Campus
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Brenda Neece, DUMIC Curator
Last summer DUMIC obtained video and audio cassettes, slides, still photographs, and written materials comprising the fieldwork and research of prominent Belgian organologist/ethnomusicologist Professor Ferdinand J. de Hen, collector of Duke’s Frans & Willemina deHen-Bijl Collection of over 200 instruments from around the world. De Hen’s main interests are the history and structure of classical European, Indian, andAfrican musical instruments. This program is a multi-media overview of these new African materials.
Named for de Hen’s parents, the de Hen-Bijl Collection was acquired during his research expeditions, which were often quite exciting. De Hen remembers that in Morocco he was cured by a medicineman: “Iwas ‘cured’ fromfever by members of the Ait bu Guemmez tribe . . . beating the whole night on their drums….” Even at home he was reminded of his travels: he “had a wonderful butterfly come out in Belgium from an instrument brought back from Swaziland.”