Simha Arom
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Simha Arom (born 1930 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as an expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of Central African Republic. His books include African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology (1991) ISBN 0-521-24160-X. He also made some historical field recordings of the Aka Pygmy music. In 2008 he received the Fumio Koizumi Prize for ethnomusicology.
[edit] See also
Research fields:
Other researchers studying Pygmy music:
- Michelle Kisliuk
- Susanne Furniss
- Colin Turnbull
- Mauro Campagnoli
[edit] External links
- Simha Arom. "A "conservative" point of view", SantaCecilia.it. Archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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