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Lucy Durán

Professor of Music (gelieerd aan West-Afrika en Cuba)

 

Lucy Durán

Professor of Music (gelieerd aan West-Afrika en Cuba)

Lucy Durán is a British ethnomusicologist, record producer and radio presenter. In the 1980s, Durán worked as a curator at the British Library National Sound Archive. In 1993 she joined SOAS University of London in the School of Arts as a Professor of Music with special reference to Africa and Cuba. She is the daughter of Spanish composer and civil war veteran Gustavo Durán and the sister of poet Jane Duran and author Cheli Duran.

She was the regular presenter of BBC Radio 3’s world music programme World Routes for its duration on air from 2000-2013, and featured programmes about traditional music recorded on location in countries as diverse as Madagascar, Equatorial Guinea, Paraguay and Albania.