EXHIBITION: Music Dance Landscape Image

Experience the sights and sounds of Africa through the lens of world-renowned ethnomusicologist John Blacking. Music Dance Landscape Image uses the John Blacking Collection, housed at The University of Western Australia’s Callaway Centre, to provide snapshots of performances that Blacking encountered during his travels in southern and eastern Africa.

Travelling to South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, and Uganda, he took camera, sound recorder, and notebook, to capture his impressions of music and dance in pictures, films, audio recordings, and diaries. The exhibition provides opportunities to see and hear rare musical instruments, and to watch lively dances on video.