In the Footsteps of the 1946 Ogooué-Congo Mission, Online Exhibition, Europeana Collections
Europeana Collections, Gilbert Rouget, the Didier family, LabEx Les passés dans le présent, Bibliothèque Eric de Dampierre (LESC-CNRS, Université Paris Nanterre), CNRS - Musée de l’Homme Sound Archive managed by CREM (Center for Research In 1947, 70 years ago, the public discovered one of the first sound recordings of Pygmy music collected in Equatorial Africa by the French ethnomusicologist Gilbert Rouget.
These were recorded during the Ogooué-Congo Mission, a scientific In the Footsteps of the 1946 Ogooué-Congo Mission, Online Exhibition, Europeana Collections
River Road African American Museum
, there was nowhere that charted the narrative of African American experience in the rural counties along the Mississippi. It developed its collections through donations; of buildings, objects, family documents, photographs, maps and pieces of art. The RRAAM opened