
French-Israeli ethnomusicologist recognized as a world expert on the music of central Africa
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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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Simha+Arom">Read more on
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